About Horningsea Park

Horningsea Park is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Horningsea Park is located 39 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool and is part of the Greater Western Sydney region.

In 1819, Joshua John Moore a British grazier was granted 500 acres (2.0 km2) in what was then known as Cabramatta. He named his property "Horningsea" after his birthplace, the village of Horningsea in Cambridgeshire, England. In the 1830s, he built a grand house which still stands to this day in Horningsea Park Drive and is listed on the Register of the National Estate. The house was at some stage home to Count Strzelecki, the Polish-born explorer who named Mount Kosciuszko.  It was purchased around 1855 by Vaiben Solomon (1802–1860), and it was around this time it was first called Horningsea Park. Vaiben and his family lived there and ran the farm until 1872.

The suburb was part of neighbouring Hoxton Park and largely farmland until 1996 when Long Homes subdivided the area for housing and Liverpool Council named it after Moore's estate.

At the 2011 census, there were 3,669 residents in Horningsea Park. The population was younger than average, with a median age of 30 years and with children aged 0–14 years making up 28.5% of the population. Most people were born in Australia and the most common ancestries were Australian, English and Italian. About half of people spoke a language other than English at home. The top other languages spoken were Hindi 5.7%, Spanish 4.7%, Arabic 3.8%, Italian 2.9% and Greek 2.3%. The most top responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 38.5%, Anglican 9.5% and Eastern Orthodox 8.9%. The median weekly household income of $1,792 was a fair bit higher than the national figure of $1,234. Separate houses were the most common dwelling type and these tended to be large, with 74.6% having 4 or more bedrooms.

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