| Type: | suburb |
| Chiswick | |
| City: | Sydney |
| State: | nsw |
| Local Map: | yes |
| Zoom: | 13 |
| Lga: | City of Canada Bay |
| Postcode: | 2046 |
| Pop: | 2,909 |
| Elevation: | 14 |
| Stategov: | Drummoyne |
| Fedgov: | Reid |
| Near-Ne: | Drummoyne |
| Near-W: | Abbotsford |
| Near-E: | Drummoyne |
| Near-Sw: | Abbotsford |
| Near-S: | Wareemba |
| Near-Se: | Russell Lea |
| Dist1: | 9 |
| Dir1: | west |
| Location1: | Sydney CBD |
Chiswick is a suburb in the Inner West[1] of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is located 9 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Canada Bay. Chiswick sits on the peninsula between Abbotsford Bay and Five Dock Bay, on the Parramatta River. It is surrounded by the suburbs of Abbotsford, Russell Lea and Drummoyne.
The area around Chiswick was first known by its Aboriginal name Bigi Bigi. The suburb was originally part of Five Dock Farm. In the 1850s a Dr Fortescue owned an estate in this area which he named Chiswick after the village on the Thames, west of London. Parramatta River had been known as the 'Thames of the Antipodes' and other nearby suburbs were also named after Thames localities, such as Greenwich, Woolwich, Henley and Putney.[2]
From 1884 until 1998, there was a wire mill on the waterfront at Chiswick.[3]
More recently it has been subjected to an increase in the building of many modern apartment blocks, which has seen the population rise to around 2,400.[4]
According to the, there were 2,909 residents in Chiswick. The most common responses for ancestry in Chiswick were English 21.1%, Italian 17.4%, Australian 17.0%, Chinese 11.9% and Irish 10.0%. The median weekly household income in Chiswick was $2,444, higher than the national median of $1,746.
The Chiswick ferry wharf is used by Parramatta River ferry services. Transit Systems operate a terminus nearby, with buses running to Circular Quay either via Drummoyne and Victoria Road, or via Leichhardt and Parramatta Road as well as a route running to Campsie station via Burwood station. Chiswick has a small group of shops in Blackwall Point Road, close to the ferry wharf.