Merrylands
The size of Merrylands is approximately 6 km². It has 13 parks covering nearly 7% of the total area. There are 7 schools and 7 childcare centres located in Merrylands. The population of Merrylands in 2001 was 19,838 people.
By 2006 the population in Merrylands was 24,679 showing a population growth of 24% in the area during that time. In 2001, 53% of the homes in Merrylands were owner-occupied compared with 56% in 2006.
The real estate in Merrylands consist of a combination of single level homes and two story level homes, single level villas, two story townhouses, combination sites of both villas and townhouses. Merrylands real estate has a combination of pre and post war homes and the area has seen a large number of older homes knocked down and replaced with new larger homes. The real estate in some of Merrylands areas has seen a number of homes parcelled together to create small real estate development sites for the construction of villa and town house sites plus a number of larger real estate sites created for a combination of both villas and townhouses.
Currently the median sale price of real estate houses in the Merrylands area is $400,000.