Elizabeth Hills, New South Wales
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  Elizabeth Hills Location in metropolitan Sydney | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates: 33°54′00″S 150°50′49″E / 33.900°S 150.847°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | New South Wales | ||||||||||||
| City | Sydney | ||||||||||||
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| Established | 2009 | ||||||||||||
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| • Total | 3,208 (2021 census)[1] | ||||||||||||
| Postcode | 2171 | ||||||||||||
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Elizabeth Hills is a suburb of western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 39 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Liverpool. Elizabeth Hills was gazetted as a suburb on 18 December 2009. Like the neighbouring suburb of Len Waters Estate, Elizabeth Hills had previously been part of the suburb of Cecil Hills.
Formerly farmlands, it is now a predominantly residential estate with housing developments mostly beginning in 2014. The suburb was named after Lady Elizabeth Wylde, the wife of the first landowner in the area who occupied and managed a farm situated at Cecil Hills from 1816 until her death in 1864.[2]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census, there were 3,208 people in Elizabeth Hills. 56.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common country of birth was Iraq at 16.9%. 34.7% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Assyrian Neo-Aramaic 13.8%, Chaldean Neo-Aramaic 9.0% (for a total of 22.8% of Sureth speakers), Arabic 8.5%, Vietnamese 4.8% and Serbian 4.3%. The most common responses for religion were Catholic 43.6%, Buddhism 8.1%, No Religion 8.0%, Assyrian Apostolic 8.0% and Christian, nfd 7.3%.[1]
