Eastwood

Eastwood is a suburb of Sydney, Australia. Eastwood is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government areas of the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta. Eastwood is in the Northern Sydney region and is serviced by the Sydney Trains T9 Northern Line. Eastwood was originally its own town but due to the expansion of Sydney, was eventually absorbed. Originally thought to have been inhabited by the Wallumedegal people, who lived in the area between the Lane Cove and Parramatta Rivers, the area was first settled by Europeans shortly after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, from land grants to Royal Marines and New South Wales Corps, and was named "Eastwood" by an early white free settler, William Rutledge. Today it is a large suburban centre in the north of Sydney of over 19,000 people, with a large shopping area. Eastwood has a large population of established immigrants with over 60% arriving over 10 years ago and over half of the population born in Asia. Immigrants from China and South Korea have transformed the commercial precinct in the past decade.