Bardia is a new, masterplanned residential suburb roughly 44 km south-west of the Sydney CBD, between Campbelltown and Liverpool in the Macarthur region, gazetted as a suburb on 18 December 2009. It sits on former Ingleburn Army Camp land — the suburb takes its name from the camp's Bardia Barracks, named for the Battle of Bardia in January 1941, the Australian Army's first major action of World War II. Most of the suburb was developed as part of Landcom's 827-hectare South West Priority Growth Area release spanning Bardia and adjoining Edmondson Park, with the first residential lots sold from 2012. Growth has been explosive: the 2021 census recorded 5,747 residents, up from just 1,602 in 2016 (+258.7%), and the profile is dominated by young families — the median age is about 30 and household income around $2,417 a week. Housing is overwhelmingly modern detached homes on estate-style lots: roughly 80-83% of listings are contemporary houses built from the 2000s onward, with a small number of townhouses and land lots still available (StMate).
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | South West Sydney |
| Council (LGA) | Campbelltown City Council / City of Liverpool |
| Postcode | 2565 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Roughly 45-55 minutes by train in typical service patterns: Edmondson Park station is 45.4 km by rail from Central… |
| Median house price | ~$1.10M-$1.23M depending on tracker: StMate's median house price is ~$1.10m (4-bed median; recent mid-2026 sales $1.05M-$1.31M), while the Cotality AVM via OnTheHouse put the median house value at $1,226,872 as at 30 June 2026 (mid-2026) |
| Median unit price | $794,777 — the unit market is tiny: the suburb is essentially all houses with no apartment buildings |
| Typical rent | ~$790-800/week median house rent |
| Price growth | House values up about 48.4% over five years ; StMate reports roughly +8.0-8.4% annual growth recently and +5.7%/yr compound over four years |
Transport
Bardia has no railway station within the suburb. The nearest station is Edmondson Park on the South West Rail Link, immediately north in the adjoining suburb of Edmondson Park — opened 8 February 2015 and about 45.4 km by rail from Central — served by T2 Leppington & Inner West Line trains to Central and the City Circle (via Liverpool and Granville) and by T5 Cumberland Line services to Parramatta, Blacktown, Schofields and Richmond; the Cumberland Line has stopped there since 26 November 2017. Transit Systems NSW operates scheduled bus routes connecting the Bardia-Edmondson Park growth precinct with the wider south-west, including Liverpool, Ingleburn, Carnes Hill, Casula and Narellan, and an Interline on-demand bus service operates around Edmondson Park station.
Schools
Bardia Public School — NSW government primary school on MacDonald Road in the suburb, renamed from Ingleburn North Public School on 5 May 2015 as the new suburb's school. The suburb's Catholic families are served by St Francis Catholic College, the K-12 co-educational Catholic college in the adjoining suburb of Edmondson Park to the north. Secondary students otherwise attend schools across the Campbelltown-Liverpool district.
Shopping & Amenities
Bardia has no major shopping centre of its own; the suburb's retail and services hub is the Ed. Square Town Centre in the immediately adjoining suburb of Edmondson Park, right at Edmondson Park station and within walking distance of homes along Bardia's northern edge on MacDonald Road — the centre is anchored by a Coles supermarket with Event Cinemas, iPlay and the Eat Street laneway of cafes and restaurants. Smaller commercial sites sit along Camden Valley Way in Edmondson Park's northern part, including the Village Square Shopping Centre. Within Bardia itself, local services include a medical imaging clinic (CareScan Bardia) in the suburb, and local area guides reference a 'Bardia Town Centre' commercial node with an EV fast-charging hub and convenience shopping amenities (CareScan; topproperty.eco).
Parks & Outdoors
The suburb was planned around open space: OnTheHouse/Cotality counts 6 parks covering nearly 5.5% of Bardia's roughly 2.1 square kilometres. Estate playgrounds, pocket parks, playing fields and landscaped reserves were delivered with each stage of the Landcom release, and Bardia sits within the wider Edmondson Park-Bardia growth area that was masterplanned around substantial regional parkland.
Property Market
The median house price in Bardia was around ~$1.10M-$1.23M depending on tracker: StMate's median house price is ~$1.10m (4-bed median; recent mid-2026 sales $1.05M-$1.31M), while the Cotality AVM via OnTheHouse put the median house value at $1,226,872 as at 30 June 2026 (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Tracker medians spread from $1,013,000 (AusPropertyInsights' long-series all-property median) through StMate's ~$1.10m to $1,226,872, with typical entry around $950k and premium homes to about $1.56m (StMate) — most houses are modern 4-5 bedroom detached homes built since the 2000s, and recent 2026 sales cluster around $1.05M-$1.31M (StMate sold data). Units are scarce (no apartment buildings per AusPropertyInsights), keeping the market house-dominated; owner-occupiers hold about 63% of homes. The suburb is young — median age ~30 — with demand driven by families and first-home buyers entering the south-west growth corridor.
New Developments
Bardia is the southern precinct of one of Sydney's biggest greenfield releases: Landcom's 827-hectare masterplanned development on former Ingleburn Army Camp land spanning Bardia and Edmondson Park, rezoned from 2008 with the first residential lots sold in 2012 and estates building out continuously since. The suburb itself was gazetted on 18 December 2009. The adjoining mixed-use Edmondson Park Town Centre (Ed. Square) was delivered in partnership with Frasers Property Australia and serves as the retail heart of the whole release. The release remains only part-built — population jumped from 1,602 (2016) to 5,747 (2021) and land lots were still being sold into 2026.
Jobs & Local Economy
Local employment centres on retail, hospitality and services in the adjoining Ed. Square town centre precinct (Coles, cinemas, dining and the wider retail mix) plus the suburb's school and small local services such as the CareScan medical imaging clinic. Many residents commute by car or train to employment hubs in Liverpool, Campbelltown and the Sydney CBD, and construction trades have been a steady source of work through the continuous estate releases. The suburb sits close to the M5/M7 corridors and the Ingleburn industrial and logistics area to the south (StMate).
Nearby Suburbs
Denham Court, Edmondson Park, Glenfield, Ingleburn, Macquarie Links
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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