Wiley Park is located 17 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown.

[3] A small shopping strip is located on King Georges Road, near the Wiley Park railway station.

Lakemba Public School notable alumni includes Vin Wallace QC, who was a Crown Prosecutor in New South Wales from 1954 retiring as Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales in 1978 Wiley Park Girls High School (established 1957) is also located here.

The station was temporarily closed on 30 September 2024 to allow for the line to be converted to Sydney Metro standards.

Unfortunately the council allowed the velodrome to fall into disrepair and removed it without community consultation, replacing part of its area with an amphitheatre.

Wiley Park was formerly inhabited largely by Anglo Celtic residents of a working-class background.

[citation needed] The suburb has become an increasingly multicultural suburb from the late 1970s onwards, with many residents born overseas or having parents born overseas, from countries such as Lebanon, Vietnam, Italy, Greece, the Philippines and the Pacific Islands.