People

According to the 2006 census

Census

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 taken by the Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics

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, Badgerys Creek had a population of 721, an improvement on the 1996 figure but still less than half the number in 1981. Well over half the houses were being rented (57%), largely because of the federal government's purchase of land in the area. Badgerys Creek was still strongly rural with the three most common industries of employment being freight transport (10.1%), vegetable farming (9.4%) and meat (5.2%).

Geography

Badgerys Creek flows north into a reservoir in the suburb's north, as does South Creek, the suburb's eastern boundary. West of the reservoir, is Mills Hill, and southwest of this by just over a kilometre is Raymond Hill, 125 metres above sea level. The western boundary is Oaky Creek, which becomes Cosgrove Creek after accepting this tributary five hundred metres north of Elizabeth Drive, and to the southwest the hill known as Anchau (118 metres above sea level).

Local issues

For several years, Badgerys Creek has been the proposed site for a Second Sydney Airport

Second Sydney Airport

The Second Sydney Airport is an ongoing proposition for another airport to supplement or replace the existing Kingsford Smith Airport in Sydney, Australia...

, but siginificant development never took place. After decades of delays and indecision, the state government eventually sold the land it had acquired to build the airport for housing.