| Type: | lga |
| City of Campbelltown | |
| State: | nsw |
| Pop: | 176,519 |
| Pop2: | 184,784 |
| Pop2 Year: | 2023 est. |
| Pop2 Footnotes: | [1] |
| Poprank: | 37th |
| Density: | 509.4 |
| Area: | 312 |
| Est: | 1882 (Municipality) 4 May 1968 (as a city) |
| Coordinates: | -34.0667°N 199°W |
| Seat: | Campbelltown |
| Mayor: | Darcy Lound (Labour) |
| Region: | Greater Western Sydney |
| Logo Upright: | 1.2 |
| Url: | http://www.campbelltown.nsw.gov.au |
| Stategov: | Campbelltown |
| Stategov2: | Macquarie Fields |
| Stategov3: | Camden |
| Stategov4: | Wollondilly |
| Fedgov: | Macarthur |
| Fedgov2: | Werriwa |
| Near-Nw: | Camden |
| Near-N: | Liverpool |
| Near-W: | Camden |
| Near-Sw: | Wollondilly |
| Near-S: | Wollondilly |
| Near-Se: | Wollongong |
| Near-E: | Sutherland |
The City of Campbelltown is a local government area in the Macarthur region of south-western Sydney, in New South Wales, Australia. The area is located about south west of the Sydney central business district and comprises .
The mayor of the City of Campbelltown is Cr. George Greiss, a member of the Liberal Party.
Suburbs in the City of Campbelltown are:
At the there were people in the Campbelltown local government area, of these 49% were male and 51% were female. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 3.8% of the population; 30% more than the NSW and Australian averages of 2.9% and 2.8% respectively. The median age of people in the City of Campbelltown was 34 years, which is significantly lower than the national median of 37 years. Children aged 0 – 14 years made up 21.6% of the population and people aged 65 years and over made up 11.8% of the population. Of people in the area aged 15 years and over, 47.1% were married and 87% were either divorced or separated.
Over the 10-year period between the and the, the population of the Campbelltown Local Government Area increased by a recorded total of 673 people (0.46% increase in population over 10 years) from 145,294 people to 145,967 people. During that 10-year period the population had decreased by 1.53% at the, and experienced a population increase of 2.02% over the subsequent five years to the . At the 2016 census, the population in the Campbelltown Local Government Area increased by 7.56%. When compared with total population growth of Australia for the same period, being 8.8%, population growth in the Campbelltown Local Government Area was slightly below the national average. The median weekly income for residents within the Campbelltown Local Government Area was generally on par with the national average.
| Selected historical census data for Campbelltown local government area | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census year | 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | ||
| Population | |||||||
| 19 | 16 | 16 | |||||
| % of New South Wales population | 2.11% | 2.10% | 2.19% | ||||
| % of Australian population | 0.77% | 0.72% | 0.68% | 0.67% | 0.69% | ||
| Median weekly incomes | |||||||
| Median weekly personal income | A$464 | A$549 | A$632 | A$738 | |||
| % of Australian median income | 99.6% | 95.1% | 95.5% | 90.8% | |||
| Family income | Median weekly family income | A$1,066 | A$1,390 | A$1,597 | A$1,927 | ||
| % of Australian median income | 103.8% | 93.9% | 92.1% | 88.2% | |||
| Household income | Median weekly household income | A$1,156 | A$1,251 | A$1,459 | A$1,700 | ||
| % of Australian median income | 98.7% | 101.4% | 101.4% | 92.9% | |||
| Selected historical census data for Camden local government area | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ancestry, top responses | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | |||||
| No Data | No Data | 25.1% | Australian | 21.6% | Australian | 24.8% | |||
| English | 22.1% | 20.3% | 22.5% | ||||||
| 5.9% | 5.8% | 6.0% | |||||||
| 5.0% | Scottish | 4.7% | 5.7% | ||||||
| 2.9% | Indian | 4.2% | 5.0% | ||||||
| Country of Birth | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | |||||
| Australia | 68.4% | Australia | 66.8% | Australia | 66.0% | Australia | 62.0% | Australia | 59.5% |
| England | 4.1% | England | 3.5% | England | 3.1% | India | 2.9% | India | 3.9% |
| New Zealand | 2.1% | New Zealand | 2.3% | New Zealand | 2.6% | New Zealand | 2.7% | Bangladesh | 3.1% |
| Philippines | 1.8% | Philippines | 2.1% | Philippines | 2.5% | Philippines | 2.6% | Philippines | 2.8% |
| Fiji | 1.1% | Fiji | 1.4% | India | 2.0% | England | 2.5% | New Zealand | 2.4% |
| India | 0.9% | India | 1.3% | Fiji | 1.6% | Bangladesh | 2.1% | Nepal | 2.1% |
| Language, top responses (other than English) | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | |||||
| Arabic | 2.3% | Arabic | 2.7% | Arabic | 2.7% | Arabic | 3.4% | Arabic | 4.2% |
| Spanish | 1.8% | Spanish | 1.7% | Samoan | 2.1% | Bengali | 3.0% | Bengali | 4.2% |
| Tagalog | 1.5% | Samoan | 1.7% | Hindi | 2.1% | Hindi | 2.4% | Nepali | 2.5% |
| Samoan | 1.4% | Hindi | 1.6% | Bengali | 1.8% | Samoan | 2.2% | Hindi | 2.1% |
| Hindi | 1.2% | Tagalog | 1.1% | Spanish | 1.7% | Spanish | 1.7% | Samoan | 1.8% |
| Religious Affiliation | |||||||||
| 2001 | 2006 | 2011 | 2016 | 2021 | |||||
| Catholic | 32.1% | Catholic | 30.9% | Catholic | 30.3% | Catholic | 26.6% | Catholic | 22.8% |
| Anglican | 25.9% | Anglican | 23.3% | Anglican | 21.0% | No Religion | 17.9% | No Religion | 21.9% |
| No Religion | 9.1% | No Religion | 10.7% | No Religion | 12.5% | Anglican | 15.2% | Islam | 11.6% |
| Islam | 3.3% | Islam | 4.5% | Islam | 5.7% | Not Stated | 8.3% | Anglican | 10.5% |
| Uniting Church | 3.2% | Uniting Church | 2.8% | Hinduism | 3.0% | Islam | 7.9% | Hinduism | 7.0% |
Campbelltown City Council is composed of fifteen councillors elected proportionally as one entire ward. All councillors are elected for a fixed four-year term of office. The mayor is elected by the councillors at the first meeting of the council. The most recent council election was held on 4 December 2021, and the makeup of the council is as follows:[2]
| Party | Councillors | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labor Party | align=right | 5 | ||
| Liberal Party | align=right | 4 | ||
| Totally Locally Committed Party | align=right | 1 | ||
| Community First Team | align=right | 1 | ||
| Animal Justice Party | align=right | 1 | ||
| Independent | align=right | 3 | ||
| Total | align=right | 15 | ||
The current Council, elected in 2021, in order of election, is:[2]
| Councillor | Party | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| George Greiss | Liberal | Mayor[3] | |||
| George Brticevic | Independent | Elected as a Labor candidate, later resigning from the party.[4] | |||
| Joshua Cotter | Community First Team | ||||
| Meg Oates | Labor | ||||
| Marian George | Liberal | ||||
| Darcy Lound | Labor | ||||
| Riley Munro | Liberal | ||||
| Margaret Chivers | Independent | Elected as a Labor candidate, later resigning from the party. | |||
| Rey Manoto | Labor | ||||
| Masood Chowdhury | Labor | ||||
| John Chew | Liberal | ||||
| Karen Hunt | Labor | ||||
| Muhamad (Masud) Khalil | Independent | Deputy Mayor[5] | |||
| Matt Stellino | Animal Justice | ||||
| Warren Morrison | Totally Locally Committed | ||||
See main article: List of mayors of Campbelltown.
Campbelltown was founded in 1820, named after Elizabeth Macquarie née Campbell,[6] wife of the then Governor Lachlan Macquarie. The town was one of a series of south-western settlements established by Macquarie at that time; the others include Ingleburn and .
Campbelltown Council was originally incorporated on 21 January 1882.[7] The present boundaries of the City of Campbelltown were largely formed in 1949, following the amalgamation of the Municipalities of Ingleburn (incorporated in April 1896) and Campbelltown, as part of a rationalisation of local government areas across New South Wales following World War II. Campbelltown was presented with its own coat of arms in 1969. The coat of arms were based those on the arms of the Campbell family in Scotland.
Campbelltown was designated as a satellite city and a regional capital for the south west of Sydney in the early 1960s in the Sydney Region Outline Plan, prepared by the Planning Commission of New South Wales. There was extensive building and population growth in the intervening time and the government surrounded the township with areas which were set aside for public and private housing and industry.
Campbelltown was declared a city on 4 May 1968 by the Hon. Pat Morton, Minister for Local Government and Highways. That same day saw the arrival of the first electric train to Campbelltown from Sydney.
As a city, Campbelltown honoured the 1st Signals Regiment (now the 1st Joint Support Unit) with the medieval custom of the Freedom of the city. The mayor, Alderman Clive Tregear, wanted to recognise the contribution to the units based at the Ingleburn Army Barracks. The regiment marched through Campbelltown until it got transferred to Queensland in the 1980s.
Opened in 2005, the Campbelltown Arts Centre is a cultural facility of Campbelltown City Council that is partially funded by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW.[8]
The City of Campbelltown has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
The principle access roads to and from Campbelltown are:
There is no direct eastern road access.As a fast-growing regional centre, road infrastructure has yet to catch up with the historically strong population growth. Areas of greatest concern include congestion on Narellan Road,[29] [30] numerous road fatalities on Appin Road and the inadequate causeway over the Georges River at Cambridge Avenue, Glenfield.[31]
Campbelltown is served by trains on the Sydney suburban rail network (Sydney Trains), with railway stations: