Ashfield, New South Wales

Ashfield
Sydney, New South Wales
Ashfield; Sydney, New South Wales
	Liverpool Road, Ashfield
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Established	1838
Postcode(s)	2131
Elevation	34 m (112 ft)
Area	3.5 km2 (1.4 sq mi)
Location	8 km (5 mi) west of Sydney CBD
LGA(s)	Inner West Council
State electorate(s)	Strathfield; Summer Hill;
Federal division(s)	Grayndler; Reid; Watson;
	Suburbs around Ashfield:

Ashfield is a suburb in Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Ashfield is about 9 kilometres south-west of the business centre of Sydney. The local government of the suburbs around Ashfield is called the Ashfield Council.

The people that live in Ashfield are from many places. 15% of people in Ashfield were born in China.

The number of people living in Ashfield is high in comparison to other suburbs of the same size. Many apartment buildings in Ashfield were built after World War II. Many houses in Ashfield were built around 1900.

The oldest building in Ashfield is a church called St John's. The building was started in 1840.

Ashfield has passenger trains and buses to and from Parramatta and Sydney CBD.^[1]

Ashfield, New South Wales Media

NASA image of Sydney's CBD and inner west suburbs, with borders of Ashfield shown in orange
Workers in the old AWA factory in 1936
Peek Freans American biscuit factory (1937) corner Frederick Street and Parramatta Road
Former Peek Freans biscuit factory, now a Bunnings warehouse (2009)
Ashfield railway station
St Vincent's Primary School
Location map of selected Ashfield landmarks
Amesbury, the heritage-listed home of Norman Selfe
St John the Baptist's Anglican Church, Ashfield
St Vincent's Roman Catholic Church