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Hills District is a general, but unofficial, term for the north-western suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. The Hills District is also referred to as The Hills and The Hills Shire. These suburbs are generally located within the local government area of Baulkham Hills Shire but parts of the City of Parramatta, City of Blacktown, and Hornsby Shire are also included in the area that is given the appellation “Hills District”.

It is so called for its characteristically comparatively hilly topography, and the fact that several of its suburbs have the word ‘Hills’ in their names, such as Winston Hills, Pennant Hills, Castle Hill, West Pennant Hills, Rouse Hill and Baulkham Hills.

The Hills District is an affluent area, rated 4th highest on the Quality Of Life Index for NSW, which is based on income and proptery wealth, only to be below Ku-Ring-Gai at 1, Hunter’s Hill at 2 and Mosman at 3. Not only this, but the Hills District has a greater income and property wealth than such areas as Willoughby, Lane Cove and Woollahra.^[1]

The regional designation is a largely artificial construct and actual suburbs and localities that are considered to be in “the Hills” can be somewhat amorphous and varies according to who is doing the listing. For example the Hills District Historical Society restricts its remit to the Baulkham Hills Shire local government area. However notwithstanding this, suburbs or parts of suburbs that appear in all or some published listings of the “Hills District” such as Yellow Pages, local newspapers and businesses include: Baulkham Hills, Beaumont Hills, Bella Vista, Carlingford, Castle Hill, Cherrybrook, Dural, Galston, Glenhaven, Glenorie, Kellyville, Kenthurst, Kings Langley, North Rocks, Pennant Hills, Round Corner, Rouse Hill, West Pennant Hills and Winston Hills. [1]