Region. Top four in the west

The top four LGAs in the Sydney metropolitan area to experience population growth, according to ABS figures in the year to June 2008, were all in Greater Western Sydney: Blacktown, 5300 (1.9 per cent); Parramatta 4000 (2.5 per cent; The Hills 3300 (2.0 per cent); and Liverpool 3200 (1.9 percent). As for the region, population growth has accelerated in Greater Western Sydney over the 12 months to June 2008 with over 54 per cent of Sydney’s growth, compared to just under half of total growth in the five-year period to 2008, according to Alex Gooding, of.Gooding Davies Consultancy, at Lawson