West Ward

Where is West Ward?

Chatswood West Ward is part of the Willoughby City Council Local Government Area (LGA), located in Sydney’s northern suburbs, and about 9 kilometres from the Sydney GPO.

Chatswood West Ward is one of four wards in the Willoughby City LGA. The other wards are Middle Harbour, Sailors Bay and Naremburn.

West Ward is bounded by Blue Gum Creek, Corina Avenue and Boundary Street in the north; the railway line, Ashley Street, Archer Street, Victoria Avenue and Claude Street in the east; Mowbray Road West and Mowbray Road in the south; and the Lane Cove River in the west. The boundaries of Chatswood West Ward are shown in green on the map below.

Holy Trinity Mowbray Anglican Church on the corner of Beaconsfield Rd and Dalrymple Ave, Chatswood, was initially erected, in the 1850s, near the corner of Mowbray Rd and Pacific H’way. After use as a School of Arts, Council Chambers and a school chapel, it was moved stone by stone to its present site in 1957.

The map shows the extent of the West Ward ( marked in the darker green).

People of Willoughby

The following snapshot of people in the West Ward in 2021 is drawn from the census statistics on the Willoughby City Council Community Profile.

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The 2021 Estimated Resident Population for the West Ward is 22,613, with a population density of 4,597 persons per square km.
The West Ward contains almost 30% of the total population of Willoughby City LGA (76,034).
Unsurprisingly, Chatswood CBD has the highest population density in Willoughby City LGA (13,630 people per square km).
The population density drops in Chatswood West – Lane Cove North to 2,263 per sq km and in those parts of Roseville within the Willoughby City area to 2,645 per sq km
The largest age group in the West Ward is in the 35-to-54-year age group (31%), followed by under 18s at 20% and the 65-79 years at 10%.
The most representative household in the West Ward is a couple with children (33.4%), followed by couples without children (24.3%) and single dwellers (23.4%).
Over 60% of West Ward residents were born overseas (including 18.6% from China; 5.4% from Hong Kong; and 4.3% from India and South Korea respectively).

‘Faces of Willoughby’ is a photographic mural of more than 2,000 Willoughby residents created in 2011. It can be viewed inside the Anderson Street entrance to the Concourse Performing Arts Centre.