R&H Suburb Profile LIVERPOOL

Liverpool is a suburb in south-western Sydney, 32km from the CBD. It is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

Liverpool has undergone a transformation into a major CBD in its own right. It is currently the major city centre in South Western Sydney. The city centre has a Hoddle Grid layout with many laneways and arcades, similar to Melbourne. The main strip is Macquarie Street, containing numerous cafes.

The main shopping area is on Macquarie Street, with Westfield Liverpool at the northern end. The northern end of the city is zoned for high density residential apartments. The southern end is zoned for high density commercial developments. Liverpool is also home to a large teaching hospital, two technical colleges and many shopping centres and office buildings. Private hospital operator Healthscope owns the Sydney Southwest Private Hospital.

Industries include a large cable factory, a telephone manufacturer, pharmaceutical laboratories and cold storage plants.

Liverpool is well served by roads such as the Hume Highway (also known as Liverpool Road), the M5 motorway, and the Westlink M7 motorway. Liverpool railway station has services to Sydney CBD and Campbelltown as well as morning peak services to Parramatta most weekdays. The Liverpool to Parramatta transitway provides a bus-only route for buses.

There are three public primary schools - Liverpool, Liverpool West and Marsden Road. Liverpool Boys and Liverpool Girls are the two public secondary schools, located next door to each other in Forbes Street. There is also Mainsbridge School, which caters for children with intellectual disabilities, and Liverpool Hospital School, for children hospitalised for lengthy periods. Private schools include All Saints Primary, All Saints Boys College, All Saints Girls College and Al Amanah College.

Post-secondary education in Liverpool is catered for with the South Western College of TAFE, Macarthur Community College, Liverpool U3A: School for Seniors, University of Western Sydney English Language Centre and the School of Arts.

Liverpool has many open spaces, including botanical parks and sporting facilities. Bigge Park on the east side of the city features a War Memorial, while Pioneer Memorial Park to the north has an historical cemetery. Woodward Park to the west is the main sporting precinct, containing several outdoor playing fields. The Whitlam Leisure Centre has a swimming pool and a 3000-seat indoor sports stadium. Other notable sports facilities include Collimore Park (netball) and Paciullo Park (soccer and touch football).

According to 2006 census data, over half the dwellings in Liverpool were apartments (52%) and a high proportion were rented (46%).