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Frequently Asked Questions About Ashfield

Q. Where is Ashfield?

A. Ashfield is a local government area which forms part of the Inner West of the City of Sydney comprising the suburbs of Ashfield, Haberfield, Summer Hill and parts of Croydon and Croydon Park.

Q. What is the size of Ashfield?

A. Ashfield is a very small local government are of approximately 8.1 square kilometres

Q. What is the population of Ashfield?

A. Ashfield has a population of approximately 42,000 people

Q. What sort of people live in Ashfield?

A. In the late nineteenth century Ashfield was a place where fairly well off people lived in single dwellings on comparatively large land holdings. As Sydney grew and expanded holdings in Ashfield were subdivided and blocks of home units erected to cope with Sydney’s burgeoning population. From the 1950’s and into the 1980’s Ashfield went into a period of decline. Since then conservation and heritage orders have led to a re-gentrification of Ashfield, especially in the suburbs of Haberfield and Summer Hill. Always a favourite choice of residence by newly arrived migrants to Australia, Ashfield has a rich and diverse cultural mix of people from Italian, Greek, Chinese, Indian and British backgrounds.

Q. Does Ashfield have a large Chinese population?

A. Ten (10) percent of the population of the Ashfield local government area is made up by people of Chinese origin particularly from Shanghai. Many Chinese residents prefer the suburb of Ashfield where they account for twenty (25) percent of the population of that suburb.

Q. How long does it take to travel to Sydney from Ashfield?

A. Ashfield has three railway stations situated at Croydon, Ashfield and Summer Hill taking eighteen (18), sixteen (16) and fourteen (14) minutes respectively to travel to Sydney. Express trains from Ashfield reduce this time to ten (10) minutes. By taxi or motor vehicle it takes approximately ten (10) to fifteen (15) minutes depending upon the traffic.

Q. How long does it take to travel to Sydney airport?

A. Car or taxi is the quickest way to travel to the airport, taking approximately thirty (30) minutes. It is also possible to make the journey by train by travelling to Central Station (18 mins) and then changing trains and taking the Airport & East Hills line to either the Domestic (10 mins) or International terminals (12 mins). There is a train leaving Central Station for the Airports approximately every fifteen (15) minutes

Q. Ashfield is in which federal electorate?

A. Ashfield is in the electorate of Grayndler, a strong Labor seat, with The Hon Anthony Albanese holding the seat since 1996 and since 2007 appointed Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government in the Rudd government.

Q. Ashfield is in which state electorates?

A. Ashfield is covered by three state electorates; Balmain – Verity Firth MP, Canterbury – Hon Linda Burney MP and Strathfield – Virginia Judge MP. All three seats are Labor seats in the Ilemma government