| 词条 | Moorebank, New South Wales |
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| name = Moorebank | city = Sydney | state = nsw | image = Moorebank shopping centre.JPG | caption = Moorebank shopping centre | lga = City of Liverpool | postcode = 2170 | est = | pop = 9747 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2016}} | pop_footnotes = [1] | area = | stategov = Holsworthy | fedgov = Hughes | near-nw = Liverpool | near-n = Warwick Farm | near-ne = Chipping Norton | near-w = Casula | near-e = Milperra | near-sw = Holsworthy | near-s = Wattle Grove | near-se = Hammondville | dist1 = 27 | dir1 = south-west | location1= Sydney CBD }} Moorebank is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Moorebank is located 27 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Liverpool. Moorebank features a mix of residential and industrial areas. Moorebank Shopping Village is a small shopping centre. HistoryThe suburb takes its name from early settler Thomas Moore. Moorebank was originally home to vineyards and other rural activities.[2] Nuwarra Public School opened in 1973 and is located directly opposite Moorebank shopping centre, which also opened in the early 1970s. Moorebank is built atop a plateau and was cut off from surrounding areas in the floods of 1986. TransportThe M5 Motorway links Moorebank east to the Sydney central business district and west to Campbelltown. Moorebank is close to Liverpool railway station on the Airport, Inner West & South Line, Bankstown Line and Cumberland Line of the Sydney Trains network. Moorebank is the site of the proposed Moorebank Intermodal Terminal. Schools
Note: Moorebank High School, Newbridge Heights Public School and St Josephs Primary are now in the adjacent suburb of Chipping Norton, due to a suburb border change. ChurchesMoorebank has a several churches for the suburb
Sport and recreationMoorebank is home to a number of local sporting teams, most of which use Hammondville Park as their home ground. Most prominent is the Moorebank Magpies Australian Football team which plays in the second division of the Sydney AFL competition. The Moorebank Rams rugby league team plays in the Canterbury-Bankstown Junior Rugby League competition but have previously fielded teams in the Metropolitan Cup, the most senior Sydney competition beneath the National Rugby League. Moorebank also fields a soccer team in the Southern Districts Soccer Football Association, a cricket team in the Fairfield-Liverpool Cricket Association, a baseball team (the Royals) in the Bankstown District Baseball Association and has netball and fishing clubs as well.[3] Moorebank is also home to a purpose built remote control car race track. The John Grant International Raceway is located in Helles Reserve which is just off Helles Avenue, near the Moorebank Road and M5 intersection. The racetrack is run by the New South Wales Remote Control Race Car Club Incorporated, a not-for-profit club, and was host to the 2001 IFMAR World Championships for 8th scale racing which saw the worlds best 8th scale racers attend this event.[4] Moorebank has a small lake called Clinches Pond. It is surrounded by a park called Chinches Pond Reserve. PopulationDemographicsAccording to the 2016 census undertaken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Moorebank was home to 9,747 people. 63.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 2.9%, India 2.3%, Fiji 2.1%, Lebanon 1.8% and Philippines 1.8%. 56.9% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 6.6%, Greek 5.0%, Vietnamese 4.2%, Hindi 2.3% and Mandarin 2.1%. The most common responses for religion in Moorebank were Catholic 30.7%, No Religion 14.3%, Anglican 12.2%, Eastern Orthodox 9.2% and Islam 6.5%. The average age was 35 compared to 38 for the country as a whole and the median household income was $1,889 per week compared to a national figure of $1,438. Much of this, however, was gobbled up by housing loan repayments where the median figure for Moorebank ($2,419 per month) was well above the national figure of $1,755.[1] Notable residents
References1. ^1 {{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC12712|name=Moorebank (State Suburb)|accessdate=16 July 2018|quick=on}} {{commons category}}{{Coord|-33.93300|150.95015|format=dms|display=title|type:city_region:AU-NSW}}{{Sydney Liverpool suburbs}}2. ^The Book of Sydney Suburbs, Compiled by Frances Pollen, Angus & Robertson Publishers, 1990, Published in Australia {{ISBN|0-207-14495-8}}, page 177 3. ^{{cite web | url= http://moorebanksports.com.au/community-affiliations/ | title= Community Affiliations | publisher= Moorebank Sports Club | accessdate=2008-03-08 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080718173118/http://www.moorebanksports.com.au/community-affiliations/ |archivedate = 2008-07-18}} 4. ^{{cite web | url= http://www.moorebankraceway.com | title=Moorebank raceway | publisher= NSWRCRCC | accessdate=2008-03-08 }} 5. ^{{cite web | url= http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A090530b.htm | title= Kaleski, Robert Lucian Stanislaus (1877 - 1961) | publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography | accessdate=2008-03-08 }} 6. ^{{cite web | url= http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A100437b.htm | title= Matthews, Harley (1889 - 1968) | publisher= Australian Dictionary of Biography | accessdate=2008-03-08 }} 2 : Suburbs of Sydney|City of Liverpool (New South Wales) |
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