established at the western edge of the park. Other features of Burwood Park include memorials to soldiers who died in World War I and Sandakan, a rotunda, a playground, a lake and an obelisk commemorating the site of Burwood Villa, the area's first house. It is also the location for Carols in the Park each Christmas. Burwood Park is located on Burwood Road opposite Westfield Burwood. Demographics In the , there were 16,030 residents in the suburb of Burwood, a significant increase from 12,466 in 2011. The most common reported ancestries in Burwood were Chinese 45.1%, English 7.0%, Australian 5.3%, Indian 3.9% and Korean 3.7%. 25.0% of the residents were born in Australia. The most common other countries of birth were mainland China 34.5%, India 3.8%, South Korea 3.4%, Nepal 3.0% and Hong Kong 2.8%. In Burwood, 20.1% of people only spoke English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 34.0%, Cantonese 11.7%, Korean 3.7%, Nepali 3.0% and Italian 2.2%. The most common responses for religion in Burwood were No Religion 44.7%, Catholic 15.5%, Buddhism 9.3%, Not stated 8.6% and Hinduism 6.4%. Commercial area Burwood has a mixture of residential, commercial, and light industrial developments. The main shopping strip runs along Burwood Road, beside Burwood railway station. Westfield Burwood is a large regional shopping centre, north of the railway line, on Burwood Road opposite Burwood Park. Burwood Plaza is a smaller shopping centre on Railway Parade, south of the railway line. "Burwood Chinatown" (; ) is an arcade connecting Burwood Plaza to Burwood Road, formerly named Murray Arcade. High rise residential and commercial buildings are also found in surrounding streets and along the railway line. Commercial and light industrial developments are located along Parramatta Road. Transport Burwood has excellent access to public transport and Burwood railway station is on the T9 Northern and T2 Inner West & Leppington lines of the Sydney Trains network. Trams to Mortlake and Cabarita once travelled down Burwood Road; trams ceased in August 1948. Transdev NSW and Transit Systems provide many bus services to Burwood, from Hurstville, Rockdale, Eastgardens, Kingsford, Strathfield, Homebush, Campsie, Ryde, Bankstown, Liverpool as well as other locations across Sydney. There are two terminuses, Burwood station and Westfield Burwood. Transit Systems' Burwood Bus Depot is located on the corner of Shaftesbury and Parramatta Roads. Burwood North is a future rapid transit station to be built as part of the Sydney