St Johns Park was originally home to the Cabrogal people who inhabited the broad Liverpool-Fairfield area.

Both the Italian and Yugoslav communities were renewed and expanded during the period of postwar migration in the 1940s, and St Johns Park is still a very multicultural area.

Chicory and wild fennel growing along the banks of Clear Paddock Creek are relics of the early European farmers.

Over a third of people were born in Australia (39.0%), with the other most common countries of birth being Vietnam (18.2%), Iraq (7.1%), Cambodia (6.0%), Croatia (3.4%) and Laos (2.0%).

It took seven years to plan and build and was funded with the assistance of a $1.33 million grant from the NSW State Government through its Stormwater Trust.