The City of Blacktown includes:
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A total area of 246 km2
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1200 hectares of serviced industrial land
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700 hectares of vacant employment land
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21,000 businesses
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Industry clusters in logistics, food manufacturing and construction
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More than 840 parks and reserves
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100 schools, colleges and university campuses
Our City
A bustling City of over 40 residential suburbs, Blacktown City is home for over 280,000 people - making it the third largest local government area in Australia and home to one in every 72 Australians.
Nearly 60,000 residents have joined the City during the past 10 years - and that trend is set to continue as more people discover Blacktown City offers the family lifestyle and educational and employment opportunities they seek.
It is a far cry from its origins more than a century ago as a rural hinterland and farming community.
Blacktown City is the heart of the Greater Sydney region - a booming area leading New South Wales in population growth, community and recreational services and employment growth.
One of the outstanding features of Blacktown City is its extensive road and rail infrastructure — the City offers 10 railway stations along two railway lines for commuters as well as regional transport interchange facilities at Blacktown and Mount Druitt.
The City is part of the M4 and M2 road networks, and will soon (2006) be joined to additional metropolitan and interstate markets with the construction of the Western Sydney Orbital route (M7) through Blacktown.
The last ten years have been marked by great change in both the demographic and socio-economic profiles of the Greater Western Region, particularly in the City of Blacktown.