Acacia Gardens is a

suburb A suburb (more broadly suburban area) is an area within a metropolitan area. They are oftentimes where most of a metropolitan areas jobs are located with some being predominantly residential. They can either be denser or less densely populated ...

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, in the state of

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, 40 kilometres north-west of the

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, in the

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of the

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. Acacia Gardens is part of the

Greater Western Sydney Greater Western Sydney (GWS) is a large region of the metropolitan area of Greater Sydney, New South Wales (NSW), Australia that generally embraces the north-west, south-west, central-west, far western and the Blue Mountains sub-regions with ...

region.

History

Acacia Gardens was formerly a part of

Quakers Hill Quakers Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the States of Australia, state of New South Wales, Australia. It is westnorth-west (WNW) of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the City ...

. The name was chosen to reflect the rural quality of the suburb, with

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trees being prevalent in the area. Many of the streets in the suburb are named after flowers. It was formally recognised as a suburb in 1996.

Demographics

According to the of the population, there were 3,668 residents in Acacia Gardens. 54.1% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were India 16.7% and the Philippines 4.2%. 51.5% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Punjabi 8.1%, Hindi 5.7% and Tagalog 2.9%. The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 25.2%, No Religion 18.6%, Hinduism 15.4%, Anglican 8.4% and Sikhism 7.4%.

Education

Acacia Gardens has just one primary school, Quakers Hill East Public School. Quakers Hill East was founded in 1959 on Lalor Road,

. In 2002, the school was moved to Acacia Gardens but the name remained unchanged. Nearby, there are two other public primary schools (Barnier and Hambledon). Government High schools in nearby suburbs include Quakers Hill High School,

Wyndham College Wyndham College is a public senior secondary school located at Nirimba Fields, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1999, its intake of students comes from three surrounding high schools: Quakers Hill High School, Riverstone High Scho ...

and Glenwood High School NSW. There are also nearby Catholic primary schools (Mary Immaculate and St John XXIII Primary). Nearby Catholic high schools include St. John Paul II Catholic College (prev. Terra Sancta College) and St Mark's Catholic College.

Transport

Busways Busways is an Australian bus company operating services in Sydney, and in the Central Coast, Mid North Coast regions of New South Wales and Adelaide. It is the largest privately owned bus operator in Australia. History The origins of Busw ...

provides regular services to

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, Castle Hill, Rouse Hill, Plumpton, St Marys and

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. The closest railway stations are located at

and

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provides services to

Parramatta Parramatta (; ) is a suburb (Australia), suburb and major commercial centre in Greater Western Sydney. Parramatta is located approximately west of the Sydney central business district, Sydney CBD, on the banks of the Parramatta River. It is co ...

and Sydney CBD from neighbouring Stanhope Gardens. The suburb is served by Wilson station on the

North-West T-way The North-West T-way is a continuous series of bus-only lanes and bus roadways between Parramatta, Blacktown and Rouse Hill in Western Sydney. Opened in stages between March and November 2007, the T-way was the second bus rapid transit route t ...

References

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