| Currans Hill Sydney, New South Wales |
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| Population: | 4,404 (2001) | ||||||||||||
| Postcode: | 2567 | ||||||||||||
| Location: | 60 km (37 mi) from Sydney CBD | ||||||||||||
| LGA: | Camden Council | ||||||||||||
| Region: | Macarthur | ||||||||||||
| State District: | Camden | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division: | Macarthur | ||||||||||||
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Currans Hill is a suburb of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 60 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Camden Council and is part of the Macarthur region.
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The area now known as Currans Hill was originally home to the Muringong, southernmost of the Darug people. In 1805 John Macarthur established his property at Camden where he raised merino sheep.[1]
In the 2001 Australian Bureau of Statistics Census, the suburb of Currans Hill had a population of 4,404 people. Like other new suburbs in southwest Sydney, the residents of Currans Hill are largely young families. The number of children aged under four (14%) is more than double the national average while the number of people aged over 65 (2.3%) is around a fifth the national average. Unemployment is relatively low (4.2%) and the main occupations are clerical, sales, trades, manufacturing and transport.[2]
Currans Hill is part of the north ward of Camden Council represented by David Funnell (currently deputy mayor of Camden), Cindy Cagney and Peter Johnson. Chris Patterson is currently the local mayor. The suburb is contained within the federal electorate of Macarthur, represented by Russell Matheson (Liberal), and the state electorate of Camden, currently held by former mayor Geoff Corrigan (Labor).
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