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| type      = suburb
| name      = Villawood
| city      = Sydney
| state     = nsw
| image     = Villawood shops.JPG
| caption   = Woodville Shopping Village (now demolished)
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| lga       = [[City of Canterbury-Bankstown]]
| lga2      = [[City of Fairfield]]
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| pop_year  = ((CensusAU|2016))
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| fedgov    = [[Division of Blaxland|Blaxland]]
| near-nw   = [[Old Guildford]]
| near-n    = [[Guildford, New South Wales|Guildford]]
| near-ne   = [[Chester Hill]]
| near-w    = [[Carramar, New South Wales|Carramar]]
| near-e    = [[Chester Hill, New South Wales|Chester Hill]]
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| near-s    = [[Bass Hill]]
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'''Villawood''', a suburb of [[Local government in Australia|local government areas]] [[City of Canterbury-Bankstown]] and [[City of Fairfield]], is 27 kilometres west of the [[Sydney central business district]], in the state of [[New South Wales]], Australia.

==History==
The [[Indigenous Australian|Aboriginal]] tribe of Gandangara once lived in the area. European settlement began in the early 1840s. During the 1860s, Villawood was used as pastoral land, but it was overrun with wild dogs. Woodville Road, which runs through Villawood, was once named Dog Trap Road because many farmers set dog traps for these wild dogs. A train station opened in 1922 to service the area was originally known as Woodville Road. Unfortunately, there was confusion with another place called [[Woodville, New South Wales|Woodville]] in the [[Hunter Valley]] and thus the name was transposed into 'Villawood'.<ref>''The Book of Sydney Suburbs'', Compiled by Frances Pollon, ''[[Angus & Robertson]]'', 1990, Published in Australia ((ISBN|0-207-14495-8)), page 260</ref>

The Villawood area is home to a large [[Public housing in Australia|public housing]] estate constructed around the 1950s-1970s consisting of detached cottages, semi-detached townhouses, walk up apartments on Urana street, and formerly a [[Radburn design housing]] complex on the site of Thurina park, which became infamous for serious social issues, such as drugs and anti-social youth crime, even eventually breeding a gang called "the Bronx boys", dabbling in the drug trade and car-rebirthing before the eventual demolition of the complex in 1998.

==Schools and churches==
Villawood East Public School and Sacred Heart Primary School are located in the suburb. There are also day and community centres, several Christian churches and a Mosque conducts Islamic services in the old post office building on Woodville Road at the shopping centre.

==Commercial area==
Villawood Place was once a major shopping centre, serving the surrounding areas. After nearby [[Bass Hill]] Plaza opened, many Villawood businesses went into decline, leaving a legacy of abandoned shop fronts and buildings, including the abandoned [[Franklins]] supermarket and large [[Australia Post]] office. There has been rejuvenation and renovation of Woodville (Villawood) Place since with construction of the new [[Aldi]] supermarket, [[Bunnings]], a bakery, chemists, grocers and other shops. It is located in proximity to [[Villawood railway station]]. A business park in Villawood holds enterprises concerning hardware products, furniture, auto parts and second-hand goods. [[Leightonfield railway station]] services an industrial area in the eastern part of Villawood.

Vilawood now houses a variety of youth recreational and entertainment venues including AMF Bowling, Wiggles World, M9 Laser Skirmish, Sydney Indoor Climbing Gym, and Kartatak go-karting, and further recreational and food attractions are planned. These are all part of a complex called The Woods Action Centre, which is located on the northern side of the railway line, directly across the road from the station on the Villawood station exit which is opposite the shopping centre. For fast food, Villawood has [[KFC]], [[McDonald's]], [[Domino's Pizza Enterprises|Domino's]] and [[Hungry Jack's]].

==Transport==
[[Villawood railway station]] and [[Leightonfield railway station]] are on the [[Main Southern railway line]].

==Sport and recreation==
Apart from the Woods Action centre (see above) which includes Indoor Climbing, Ten-pin bowling, Go-karting and the Wiggles indoor play centre, Villawood is home to three other major sport and recreation areas: The Wran Leisure Centre, Thurina Park and Villawood Skatepark.

The Wran Leisure Centre (named after [[Neville Wran]]) houses a swimming pool, tennis courts, a gymnasium and squash courts.
Thurina Park houses two multi purpose sporting fields that cater for [[soccer]], [[cricket]] and [[baseball]]. Thurina Park is also home to the Villawood United Soccer Club.

==Demographics==
At the ((CensusAU|2016)), Villawood recorded a population of 6,032. Of these:<ref name=census/>
* The median age of Villawood residents was 36 years, compared to the national median of 35 years. Children aged 0–14 years made up 20.1% of the population (national average is 18.7%) and people aged 65 years and over made up 12.5% of the population (national average is 15.8%).
* There is a very diverse ethnic range.  Fewer than half (43.9%) of residents were born in Australia; the next most common countries of birth were Vietnam 13.8%, Lebanon 7.4%, China 2.6%, New Zealand 2.5% and Iraq 1.8%.  Looking past the country of birth to residents' self-identified ancestry shows another dimension of this cultural diversity: the most common ancestries were Lebanese 15.1%, Vietnamese 14.5%, Australian 10.8%, English 9.3% and Chinese 6.9%.  Less than one third (26.0%) of people spoke English at home; other languages spoken at home included Arabic 22.0%, Vietnamese 17.1%, Cantonese 3.6%, Mandarin 1.8%.
* The most common response for religion was Islam at 25.5%.

==Detention centre==
[[File:Asylum seekers on the roof of Villawood Immigration Detention Centre 2.jpg|thumb|220px|Protesters at the detention centre (April 2011).]]
The suburb is home to [[Villawood Immigration Detention Centre]], which is situated at 15 Birmingham Avenue. It was originally a [[hostel]], constructed in 1949, to accommodate [[post-war]] refugees from Europe. In 1976, a subdivision of the original camp was converted into an immigration detention centre. In addition to housing [[asylum seekers]], people refused entry into the country at international airports and seaports may also be detained in the centre.

The centre has been the focus of much controversy, with accusations of [[human rights]] abuses.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.immi.gov.au/managing-australias-borders/detention/facilities/locations/villawood/ |title=Villawood Immigration Detention Facility in Sydney (NSW) - Facilities - Detention Services |publisher=Immi.gov.au |date=2008-10-29 |access-date=2013-10-31))</ref> In January 2008, the [[Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]] (HREOC) said the high-security section of Villawood Detention Centre was the "most prison like" of all Australia's immigration detention centres, and demanded it be closed immediately.<ref>((cite news | url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/villawood-targeted-as-worst-in-country/2008/01/09/1199554742688.html | title=Villawood targeted as worst in country | newspaper=[[Sydney Morning Herald]] | date=2008-01-10 | access-date=2008-01-10 ))</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
((Commons category))
* [http://www.fairfieldcity.nsw.gov.au/ The Fairfield City Council Website]
* [http://www.id.com.au/bankstown/CommProfile/default.asp?id=101&gid=240&pg=1 Bankstown City Council Community Profile]
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[[Category:Suburbs of Sydney]]

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