Lalor Park
Lalor Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Lalor Park is located west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Blacktown. Lalor Park is part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Lalor Park is commonly abbreviated as 'L.P'.
Population
According to the of Population, there were 7,834 people in Lalor Park.- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.8% of the population.
- 63.8% of people were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were India 3.9%, Philippines 3.4%, New Zealand 2.2%, England 1.5% and South Korea 1.3%.
- 64.6% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Arabic 3.9%, Tagalog 2.0%, Punjabi 1.9%, Korean 1.7% and Tamil 1.5%.
- The most common responses for religion were No Religion 26.0%, Catholic 25.1% and Anglican 11.0%.
Community Facilities
Lalor Park has a small but strong presence of community centres, which cluster around the Chiefly Reserve block along Freeman Street and include:- - administered by Blacktown City Council
- - an outdoor garden run by volunteers
- - run by Danielle RG, the artist of the colourful mural paintings that decorate the walls of Lalor Park Library and the nearby shops
- - a small outdoor skatepark and neighboring playground
Commercial areas
Serving the primarily residential suburb of Lalor Park is an outdoor shopping precinct with a few dozen retailers and small businesses, located at the junction of Northcott Road and Freeman Street. Although the exterior walls of the buildings were vandalised, the graffiti has since been covered by murals painted by Danielle RG of Creative Groundz and Nathan Marshall of Common Groundz Cafe.Education
Lalor Park is the location of a number of educational institutions including:- - A community based preschool
- - K-6 public primary school founded in 1959
- - systemic Catholic K-6 Primary School founded 1960 by the Sisters of St Joseph
- , owned and operated by Blacktown City Council
Sport
Lalor Park Kookaburras Rugby League Club was established in 1959. They compete in the Parramatta Junior Rugby League. The club's colours are blue, brown and white. Home ground for the Kookaburras is Cavanagh Reserve. Lalor Park juniors that have played 1st grade in Australia include Mick Delroy,Luke Lewis,Feleti Mateo, Jorge Taufua and Brett Delaney.On the 16/11/25 it was announced that after 66 years the Lalor Park Kookaburras Junior Rugby League Club was ceasing operations immediately as no committee could be formed to lead the club into the future.