Just as Parramatta’s CBD has exploded as the second home of every major Australian bank, so too has the region’s population and earning capacity
Birchgrove Oval – where 114 years ago, fans paid sixpence to watch the first two professional rugby league games played in Australia – is nestled in an inner-west suburb boasting a $3 million median house price and more PhDs than any other Sydney locality.
Census data from last year showed the median weekly household income for Parramatta residents has more than doubled over the past decade ,The Parramatta fanbase has become one of the game’s most culturally diverse.On the club front, research commissioned by the Eels in 2019 found one in five Parramatta fans were born overseas, and around 30 per cent were first-generation Australians born to migrant parents.
“And it’s become a real mixing pot of different social classes and cultural backgrounds, all united by the Parramatta Eels.”Penrith went into camp at a Parramatta hotel last FridayA combination of Lebanese drums, cheering fans and honking horns up and down the streets of Parramatta kept the Panthers awake well into the wee hours.
Population trends either side of Sunday’s halfway line suggest that’s the safest bet of grand final day.Credit:ABS data mapping projects Parramatta’s population is projected to grow 48 per cent by 2041. The Penrith LGA’s population is set to rise by 25 per cent. In both regions and fan bases, the heritage base becomes broader every year.
“That will always be rugby league’s greatest strength. League cannot, and never should lose its roots as a working-class sport,” Christopher Brown, chair of the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue think tank and self-confessed Eels tragic says. , a church set up in Mt Druitt by the parents of Penrith cult heroes Tony and Frank Puletua during the early 1990s helped solidify the Samoan community with rugby league at its core.“And rugby league’s a huge part of the Samoan community, it’s a massive part of the Penrith area and who we are as people.
Parramatta halfback Mitchell Moses shares a laugh with co-captain Clint Gutherson during the Eels training session.The club’s membership data pointed to 40 per cent of Eels members either living in the Hills District or in close proximity – an area Brown describes as “for so long, unserved by sport but well-served by wealth”.
“Our NRLW team provides that connection point to young girls that support Parramatta or live in our area,” Sarantinos says.
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