About Prestons

Prestons is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 37 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Liverpool.

Prestons was named after a local family who in the early 1900s ran a post office on the corner Romana Square. Their name became synonymous with the post office and in 1972, it officially became the name of the suburb.

The Prestons Cricket Club (Hornets) operates from Amalfi Park, since it was founded in 1968. Prestons Robins Little Athletics operates on Friday Nights at the new park on Ash Road during summer months.

According to the 2006 Australian census, Prestons had a population of 12,824, a substantial proportion of whom were immigrants to Australia. The most common countries of birth (apart from Australia) were Fiji (6.1%), Philippines (3.8%). The most common foreign languages spoken at home were Hindi (7.3%), Arabic (5.0%) andSpanish (3.4%). While Catholicism was the most common religion (32.3%), Islam was the second most common with 10.2% ahead of the Anglicans with 9.6%.

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