Ashcroft is a suburb of Sydney 35 km south-west of the CBD, in the City of Liverpool, formed as part of the NSW Housing Commission's Green Valley development and officially gazetted on 7 April 1972. At the 2021 census it had 3,634 residents in a strongly multicultural, family-oriented community: 51.0% were born in Australia with Vietnam (8.3%), Lebanon (4.9%) and Iraq (4.8%) the next most common birthplaces, and 35.1% spoke only English at home while Arabic (21.2%) and Vietnamese (12.6%) were the main other languages; Islam (23.9%) and Catholicism (17.7%) were the largest religions, and Wikipedia notes Ashcroft is unusual in that most residents are religious against the national trend. The suburb has a deep rugby league heritage — Ashcroft High won schoolboy titles including the Amco Shield in 1977 and 1985 — and counts former Labor leader Mark Latham and rugby league great Brad Fittler among former residents.
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Western Sydney |
| Council (LGA) | Liverpool City Council |
| Postcode | 2168 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Roughly 65–80 minutes door-to-door by public transport: buses take about 10–20 minutes from Ashcroft to Liverpool Station… |
| Median house price | ~$1.10M–$1.11M (Allhomes median house sale price $1,105,000; CoreLogic via YIP median $1,100,000, 43 house sales in 12 months) (mid-2026) |
| Median unit price | n/a — no reliable unit median: stock is overwhelmingly detached houses and unit sales are too few for a stable median |
| Typical rent | ~$495–$550/week for typical 3-bedroom houses (recent Allhomes rental listings, Sep 2026) |
| Price growth | House median value +50.84% over 5 years ; YIP/CoreLogic lists 12-month house growth of +18.92% — an outlier figure that other trackers do… |
Transport
Ashcroft has no railway station; the nearest rail is Liverpool Station, about a 28-minute walk or a short bus ride away, served by Sydney Trains T2 Leppington & Inner West, T3 Liverpool & Inner West and T5 Cumberland Line services. Bus routes 804 (Liverpool–Parramatta via Fairfield West), 805 (Liverpool–Cabramatta), 806 (Liverpool–Parramatta via Abbotsbury), 808 (Liverpool–Fairfield) and 827 (Carnes Hill–Liverpool) stop on Elizabeth Drive and Reservoir Road at Ashcroft's northern edge.
Schools
Ashcroft Public School — NSW government primary school (Preschool to Year 6) in Ashcroft, serving the local community (NSW Department of Education). Ashcroft High School — NSW government comprehensive co-educational secondary school (Years 7–12) in Ashcroft (NSW Department of Education). Both sit within the suburb's residential grid around Ashcroft Road; no university campus exists in Ashcroft or in its immediately adjacent suburbs (WSU Campbelltown and UWS-era campuses are well to the south-west).
Shopping & Amenities
Shopping is small-scale and local: the best-known retail is the small Ashcroft corner-shop strip on Carpenter Lane with a food takeaway, hairdresser and doctors surgery, decorated with a waterfall-and-forest mural — one of the suburb's notable landmarks. There is no major shopping centre within Ashcroft; for bigger retail, residents head to Liverpool's commercial centre, which borders the suburb to the east.
Parks & Outdoors
Open space is limited to parks and reserves dotted through the post-war housing grid: Ashcroft Public School sits near Gard Park and Sadleir Park, the latter just across the boundary in adjacent Sadleir (Mapcarta). The suburb is a compact, built-out residential area, so recreation leans on neighbourhood playgrounds and sports fields rather than large bushland reserves.
Property Market
The median house price in Ashcroft was around ~$1.10M–$1.11M (Allhomes median house sale price $1,105,000; CoreLogic via YIP median $1,100,000, 43 house sales in 12 months) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Median house prices cluster around $1.10–1.11M, consistent with sibling Green Valley cluster suburbs Sadleir (~$1.1M) and Cartwright (~$990K). Recent 2025–26 house sales in Ashcroft range from roughly $1.03M (117 Strickland Crescent, Jun 2026) to $1.18M (27 Wilberforce Street, May 2026) (Allhomes). Trackers disagree on growth: OnTheHouse shows +50.84% over five years while YIP/CoreLogic's +18.92% for one year looks high and may reflect a thin sales window in a market with only a few dozen sales a year; treat single-year growth figures with caution. Listings and sales show a market of original Housing Commission-era homes being renovated and extended by families drawn from Liverpool and south-west Sydney (Allhomes).
New Developments
New development is minimal: Ashcroft is a fully built-out early-1970s Housing Commission estate and no significant development pipeline was found in public sources — activity is limited to renovations, extensions and occasional knock-down-rebuilds of the original post-war housing stock.
Jobs & Local Economy
There are no major employers within Ashcroft itself; employment is concentrated in nearby Liverpool — the commercial and administrative hub that borders the suburb to the east — along with other south-western Sydney centres, with local retail at the corner shops providing a small number of service jobs.
Nearby Suburbs
Cartwright, Heckenberg, Liverpool, Lurnea, Mount Pritchard, Sadleir
Sources & method
Researched 4 September 2026 from named public sources — census and government records, transport authorities, council and planning documents — plus published sales data. Where sources disagree on a figure, the guide says so rather than picking one.
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