Green Valley, New South Wales
Encyclopedia
Green Valley is a suburb
of Sydney
, in the state of New South Wales
, Australia
. Green Valley is located 39 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district
, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool
and is part of the Greater Western Sydney
region.
forests and home to native animals such as wallabies
and possum
s that were hunted by the Cabrogal for meat, hides and bones. When Governor Lachlan Macquarie
established a town at nearby Liverpool
in 1810, the surrounding areas were soon granted to British settlers who began clearing the forests for farmlands.
A large area to the northwest of Liverpool was dubbed Green Valley. As well as the present-day suburb of Green Valley, it included what is now known as Ashcroft
, Busby
, Cartwright
, Heckenberg
, Miller
, Sadleir
and parts of Hinchinbrook
and Mount Pritchard
.
One of the first settlers in the area was Peter Miller who gave his name to the nearby suburb of Miller
. Another was Charles Scrivener who served as mayor of Liverpool
and who oversaw the establishment of Green Valley School in 1882. When the first children began their classes, the school was nothing more than a large tent although a wooden building with an iron roof was constructed not long after.
By the 1960s, Sydney's suburban sprawl had reached Liverpool and building began on the Green Valley Housing Estate. The suburb of Green Valley shrank to an area a bit larger than its modern boundaries and it began to develop a new character as a residential area in contrast to its former farming life. The last change to Green Valley's boundaries occurred in 1986 when an undeveloped area at the southern edge of the suburb became part of the new suburb of Hinchinbrook
.
(7.5%), Fiji
(4.3%), Iraq
(3.3%), Laos
(2.8%) and the Philippines
(2.0%).
, 5.9% speak Spanish
, 5.5% speak Hindi
, 4.7% speak Arabic, 3.8% speak Assyrian
.
, 17.8% Buddhism
, 8.3% Eastern Orthodox, 7.9% Islam
, 4.6% No Religion.
The average rent in Green Valley is $240 per week and the average mortgage repayment is $1700 per month. 21.6% are fully owned, and 47.7% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 20.7% of homes are rented.
leader, Mark Latham
, grew up in Green Valley, and referred to it wistfully in a pre-election speech, clearly aping Bill Clinton
's 1997 references to his hometown, Hope, Arkansas
, Latham saying he still remembered "a place called Green Valley," where Clinton had said, rather more appositely, "I believe in a place called Hope." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/22/1082530268221.html
Suburb
The word suburb mostly refers to a residential area, either existing as part of a city or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city . Some suburbs have a degree of administrative autonomy, and most have lower population density than inner city neighborhoods...
of Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
, in the state of New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. Green Valley is located 39 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district
Sydney central business district
The Sydney central business district is the main commercial centre of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It extends southwards for about 3 kilometres from Sydney Cove, the point of first European settlement. Its north–south axis runs from Circular Quay in the north to Central railway station in...
, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool
City of Liverpool, New South Wales
The City of Liverpool is a Local Government Area to the southwest of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.-History:It is one of the oldest urban settlements in Australia, founded in 1810 as an agricultural centre by Governor Lachlan Macquarie...
and is part of the Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney
Greater Western Sydney is a term used to describe the western region of the metropolitan area of Sydney, Australia. The University of Western Sydney defines Greater Western Sydney as comprising 14 local government areas...
region.
History
Green Valley was originally home to the Cabrogal people who spoke the Darug language. It was covered in eucalyptEucalypt
Eucalypts are woody plants belonging to three closely related genera:Eucalyptus, Corymbia and Angophora.In 1995 new evidence, largely genetic, indicated that some prominent Eucalyptus species were actually more closely related to Angophora than to the other eucalypts; they were split off into the...
forests and home to native animals such as wallabies
Wallaby
A wallaby is any of about thirty species of macropod . It is an informal designation generally used for any macropod that is smaller than a kangaroo or wallaroo that has not been given some other name.-Overview:...
and possum
Possum
A possum is any of about 70 small to medium-sized arboreal marsupial species native to Australia, New Guinea, and Sulawesi .Possums are quadrupedal diprotodont marsupials with long tails...
s that were hunted by the Cabrogal for meat, hides and bones. When Governor Lachlan Macquarie
Lachlan Macquarie
Major-General Lachlan Macquarie CB , was a British military officer and colonial administrator. He served as the last autocratic Governor of New South Wales, Australia from 1810 to 1821 and had a leading role in the social, economic and architectural development of the colony...
established a town at nearby Liverpool
Liverpool, New South Wales
Liverpool is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Liverpool is located 32 km south-west of the Sydney central business district, and is the administrative centre of the local government area of the City of Liverpool...
in 1810, the surrounding areas were soon granted to British settlers who began clearing the forests for farmlands.
A large area to the northwest of Liverpool was dubbed Green Valley. As well as the present-day suburb of Green Valley, it included what is now known as Ashcroft
Ashcroft, New South Wales
Ashcroft is a suburb in South-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashcroft is located 35 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-History:...
, Busby
Busby, New South Wales
Busby is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Busby is located 37 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool...
, Cartwright
Cartwright, New South Wales
Cartwright is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Cartwright is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.- Geography :...
, Heckenberg
Heckenberg, New South Wales
Heckenberg is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Heckenberg is located 36 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-History:...
, Miller
Miller, New South Wales
Miller is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Miller is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-Commercial area:...
, Sadleir
Sadleir, New South Wales
Sadleir is a suburb in south-western Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Sadleir is located 37 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-History:...
and parts of Hinchinbrook
Hinchinbrook, New South Wales
Hinchinbrook is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hinchinbrook is located 39 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. It is bordered by Hoxton Park and Green Valley.The main shopping precinct...
and Mount Pritchard
Mount Pritchard, New South Wales
Mount Pritchard is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Mount Pritchard is located 34 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Fairfield and is part of the South-western Sydney region.- History :Mount...
.
One of the first settlers in the area was Peter Miller who gave his name to the nearby suburb of Miller
Miller, New South Wales
Miller is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Miller is located 38 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.-Commercial area:...
. Another was Charles Scrivener who served as mayor of Liverpool
Liverpool City Council
Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards. The council is currently controlled by the Labour Party and is led by Joe Anderson.-Domain:...
and who oversaw the establishment of Green Valley School in 1882. When the first children began their classes, the school was nothing more than a large tent although a wooden building with an iron roof was constructed not long after.
By the 1960s, Sydney's suburban sprawl had reached Liverpool and building began on the Green Valley Housing Estate. The suburb of Green Valley shrank to an area a bit larger than its modern boundaries and it began to develop a new character as a residential area in contrast to its former farming life. The last change to Green Valley's boundaries occurred in 1986 when an undeveloped area at the southern edge of the suburb became part of the new suburb of Hinchinbrook
Hinchinbrook, New South Wales
Hinchinbrook is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Hinchinbrook is located 39 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. It is bordered by Hoxton Park and Green Valley.The main shopping precinct...
.
Population
According to the 2006 census, Green Valley had 11,959 people living within its perimeters. The median household income of $950 per week was on par with the national average ($1027). Most houses in the suburb were standalone (82%) with the remaining 18% semis or townhouses. A higher than average number of homes were being purchased (48%). Most residents were Australian citizens (84%) but almost half were born overseas (48%) with the most common countries of birth being VietnamVietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
(7.5%), Fiji
Fiji
Fiji , officially the Republic of Fiji , is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand's North Island...
(4.3%), Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
(3.3%), Laos
Laos
Laos Lao: ສາທາລະນະລັດ ປະຊາທິປະໄຕ ປະຊາຊົນລາວ Sathalanalat Paxathipatai Paxaxon Lao, officially the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a landlocked country in Southeast Asia, bordered by Burma and China to the northwest, Vietnam to the east, Cambodia to the south and Thailand to the west...
(2.8%) and the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
(2.0%).
Languages
27.4% of people speak English as their first language, 10.6% speak VietnameseVietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
, 5.9% speak Spanish
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
, 5.5% speak Hindi
Hindi
Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
, 4.7% speak Arabic, 3.8% speak Assyrian
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is a Neo-Aramaic dialect, spoken by an estimated 220,000 people , formerly in the area between Lake Urmia, north-western Iran, and Siirt, south-eastern Turkey, but now more widely throughout the...
.
Religion
The religious make up of Green Valley is 33.6% CatholicCatholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
, 17.8% Buddhism
Buddhism
Buddhism is a religion and philosophy encompassing a variety of traditions, beliefs and practices, largely based on teachings attributed to Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha . The Buddha lived and taught in the northeastern Indian subcontinent some time between the 6th and 4th...
, 8.3% Eastern Orthodox, 7.9% Islam
Islam
Islam . The most common are and . : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
, 4.6% No Religion.
Married
55.6% of people are married, 31.7% have never married and 9.3% are separated or divorced. There are 302 widowed people living in Green Valley.Employment Status
62.9% of the people living in Green Valley are employed full time, while 21.7% are employed on a part time basis. Green Valley has an above average unemployment rate of 8.5% and 2861 people are not part of the labour force.Income
The average individual income is $410.00 per week and the average household income is $1130.00 per week.The average rent in Green Valley is $240 per week and the average mortgage repayment is $1700 per month. 21.6% are fully owned, and 47.7% are in the process of being purchased by home loan mortgage. 20.7% of homes are rented.
Notable residents
Former Australian Labor PartyAustralian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...
leader, Mark Latham
Mark Latham
Mark William Latham , an author and former Australian politician, was leader of the Federal Parliamentary Australian Labor Party and Leader of the Opposition from December 2003 to January 2005....
, grew up in Green Valley, and referred to it wistfully in a pre-election speech, clearly aping Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...
's 1997 references to his hometown, Hope, Arkansas
Hope, Arkansas
Hope is a small city in Hempstead County, Arkansas, United States. According to 2008 United States Census Bureau estimates, the population of the city was 10,378...
, Latham saying he still remembered "a place called Green Valley," where Clinton had said, rather more appositely, "I believe in a place called Hope." http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/04/22/1082530268221.html