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The Hills Shire has a proud reputation Today, The Hills Shire is made up of SOUTH MAROOTA as the ‘Garden Shire’ mainly due to 27 suburbs and has a population of the bushland, reserves and well- more than 178,000 residents, with

maintained gardens of its residential the majority of residents living in the CATTAI areas. southern part of the Shire. It is one of the larger Local By 2036, the population is projected GLENORIE Government areas in and to reach 290,900. covers 386 square kilometres, stretching from the M2 in the south to DOING BUSINESS IN THE SHIRE MARAYLYA in the north. Two- From the time of the first white thirds of the Shire is rural land used settlement in 1794, through the 1800s MIDDLE DURAL for farming and other agricultural and most of the 1900s, agriculture industries. The Shire adjoins the Local NELSON KENTHURST was the dominant industry in The Hills ANNANGROVE BOX HILL Government areas of Hawkesbury, Shire. It started with sheep and wheat Blacktown, Parramatta and Hornsby. farming and grew to include citrus - ROUSE HILL

especially oranges and stone fruit. NORTH KELLYVILLE DURAL POPULATION GLENHAVEN Of the many industries in the Shire BEAUMONT HILLSBELLA In 1851, the population of Baulkham today, construction, property and KELLYVILLE Hills Shire was 436 and there were business services, wholesale and CASTLE HILL 87 houses. As late as 1956, the NORWEST retail trade are the most dominant. population had only grown to 15,000 BELLA VISTA

WEST PENNANT HILLS and it was not until the 1960s that As of June 2017 there are 20,142 BAULKHAM HILLS urban development increased in the business entities operating in the The NORTH ROCKS

Shire. Hills Shire. WINSTON HILLS Houses were built in Carlingford The Shire’s largest commercial/ DID YOU KNOW? and Baulkham Hills, followed by industrial areas include Castle Hill development in Castle Hill during the Trading Zone & Norwest Business • 61.7% of residents in The Hills Shire 1970s and Glenhaven in the early Park. Retail shopping centres include were born in . 1980s. Castle Towers, Stockland Mall Baulkham Hills and Rouse Hill Town • The dominant age groups are 5-14 Since the late 1990s, Kellyville and Centre. and 40-49 years. Rouse Hill have been the growth areas for residential housing in the • Industries operating in the Shire. The Box Hill area is the latest to Shire include commercial, retail, be developed as The Hills of Carmel. manufacturing, agricultural, extractive industries and building and construction. 3 www.thehills.nsw.gov.au | 9843 0555