• Highest Recorded Temperature: 44.2 °C
• Lowest Recorded Temperature: -2.3 °C
• Warmest Month: January
• Coolest Month: July
• Highest Precipitation: February
• Lowest Precipitation: August

Demographics

According to the 2006 Australian Bureau of Statistics

Australian Bureau of Statistics

The Australian Bureau of Statistics is Australia's national statistical agency. It was created as the Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics on 8 December 1905, when the Census and Statistics Act 1905 was given Royal assent. It had its beginnings in section 51 of the Constitution of Australia...

 Census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

 of Population, there were 10,950 persons usually resident in Smithfield, of which the large majority were over the age of 15 (78.7%), Australian born (53.5%) and Australian citizens (85.6%). Interestingly, at the census date Smithfield had a rather low unemployment rate of 0.1%. The largest age groups in the suburb in 1996 comprised persons aged 25–34 (16.1%), 35-44 (16.1%), followed by those aged 45–54. Persons aged over 65 comprised 10.0% of the total population. The majority of families in the area were two parent families (54.3%) with single parent families comprising 16.3% of total families.

Approximately 40% of the population was born overseas, with the top countries of birth being Iraq

Iraq

Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....

 4.8%, Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

 4.6% and Italy

Italy

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 4.5%. The largest proportions of households were one family households (77.3%) and lone person households comprised 17.1%. Detached housing dominates the area, comprising 87.9% of total occupied private dwellings. The majority of dwellings are fully owned (47.5%). 26.6% of dwellings are rented, of these 17.6% are in private rental and 8.6% in public rental. Almost three in four residents (74.3%) are Christian

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

. Followed by Buddhism

Buddhism

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 (7.3%), non-religious

Irreligion

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 (5.5%), Islam

Islam

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 (3.9%) and Hinduism

Hinduism

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 (0.5%).

Notable residents

Smithfield was the childhood home of footballer

Football (soccer)

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 Harry Kewell

Harry Kewell

Harold "Harry" Kewell is an Australian professional football midfielder who plays for Melbourne Victory in the A-League. Internationally he has received 55 caps, and scored 16 goals, while playing for the Australian national team...

 and performance coach Jimmy Petruzziello also known as Jimmy Petruzzi.

Politics

Smithfield is led by Fairfield City Council, with Nick Lalich

Nick Lalich

Nick Lalich is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly since October 2008, representing the electorate of Cabramatta...

 (Labor) as Mayor

Mayor

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, Andrew Rohan

Andrew Rohan

Andrew Baijan Rohan MP , an Australian politician, is a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing Smithfield for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2011.-Early years and background:...

 (Liberal) as State MP for Smithfield, and Chris Bowen

Chris Bowen

Christopher Eyles "Chris" Bowen , an Australian federal politician, is a member of the Australian House of Representatives, initially elected to represent the seat of Prospect in western Sydney for the Australian Labor Party at the 2004 federal election...

 and Jason Clare

Jason Clare

Jason Dean Clare is the Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for the seat of Blaxland in the western suburbs of Sydney. He won election in the 2007 Australian federal election....

(both Labor) as Federal MPs for the seats of McMahon and Blaxland respectively.