Bass Hill, NSW 2197

An established, multicultural family suburb in south-western Sydney, about 23 km south-west of the Sydney CBD in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown local government area. Bass Hill is named after explorer and surgeon George Bass, who was granted land here in 1798 after exploring the Georges River with Matthew Flinders; the area grew quickly after Liverpool Road (now the Hume Highway) was completed in 1814, was long known as 'Irish Town'/'Upper Bankstown', and was officially named Bass Hill in October 1924. At the 2021 census it had 10,230 residents (median age 34): 56.5% born in Australia with Lebanon (8.9%) and Vietnam (7.9%) the top overseas birthplaces, 33.6% speaking only English at home (Arabic 30.5%, Vietnamese 10.1%) and the most common religions Islam (33.5%) and Catholic (22.3%). Housing stock is dominated by postwar brick family homes and larger lots — mostly houses (80%) on medium-to-large blocks — strung along the Hume Highway corridor (AusPropertyFinder).

At a Glance

Transport

Bass Hill has no railway station within the suburb — the nearest station is Chester Hill, about 1.8 km north in adjoining Chester Hill, with Yagoona station also just over the suburb's eastern border in adjoining Yagoona, both on the Bankstown rail corridor. The corridor is part of the wider Sydney Metro City & Southwest program, which is converting the line between Sydenham and Bankstown to metro standards with services targeted to begin around October 2026. Within Bass Hill, buses run along the Hume Highway corridor: route 907 links the suburb (stops at Bass Hill Public School on the Hume Highway and opposite) via Yagoona Station to Bankstown Central and Bankstown Station (Bass Hill Public School bus timetable).

Schools

Bass Hill has three schools in the suburb: Bass Hill Public School, a NSW government primary school (K–6); Bass High School, the suburb's government secondary school (7–12); and George Bass School, a NSW government 'school for specific purposes' supporting students with special needs.

Shopping & Amenities

Bass Hill Plaza — a district-sized shopping centre of about 20,000 m² at 753 Hume Highway — is the suburb's retail anchor, with a Woolworths supermarket, Kmart, Aldi, a medical centre, post office and about 60 specialty stores. The Bass Hill RSL club operated from 1964 until it closed in 2019. For the wider civic and commercial services of the Canterbury-Bankstown LGA, residents look to the Bankstown town centre a few kilometres east and Chester Hill to the north.

Parks & Outdoors

The Crest sporting complex is Bass Hill's major open-space precinct: it contains the Dunc Gray Velodrome — home of the track cycling events at the 2000 Sydney Olympics and the Cycling World Cup — plus a state athletics complex and soccer, hockey, rugby league and cricket fields, with clubrooms for the South West Strikers Soccer Club, Bankstown District Sports Club Hockey Club, Banksports Athletics and other local sporting clubs.

Property Market

The median house price in Bass Hill was around ~$1.36M–$1.44M across trackers: AusPropertyFinder puts the 12-month median house price at $1.44M (up 7.9% on the previous 12 months, NSW Valuer General sales data); proplo records a $1,400,000 median house price (+7.7% YoY); auspropertyinsights lists a $1,365,000 median property price (all types) across 4,665 sales over 36 years (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Tracker medians for Bass Hill houses cluster around $1.4M: AusPropertyFinder $1,436,000 (12 months to 2026), proplo $1,400,000 (+7.7% YoY, June 2026), and auspropertyinsights $1,365,000 across all property types (36-year dataset) — comfortably at the top of the earlier $1.15–1.4M guide range. realestate.com.au suburb data separately lists $1,095,000 for 2-bedroom houses only (July 2025–July 2026 window). Unit stock is a small share of the market (dominant property type is houses, ~80%), and no reliable suburb-level unit median is published, so unit fields are null.

New Developments

Bass Hill's most notable development was the Viewpoint housing estate, built on the site of the Skyline drive-in cinema, which operated from 1956 until it closed and was demolished in 2007. Today there are no large master-planned projects in the suburb; new supply comes mainly from residential infill — duplexes, townhouse developments and knock-down-rebuilds on the suburb's large established lots, processed through Canterbury-Bankstown Council.

Jobs & Local Economy

Retail at Bass Hill Plaza (Woolworths, Kmart, Aldi and ~60 specialty stores) is the suburb's largest local employment base, and the Hume Highway corridor itself supports road-transport, logistics and service businesses. Immediately adjoining the suburb, Bankstown Aerodrome hosts Bankstown Airport — Sydney's busiest general-aviation airport and a major aviation-employment node — while the Bankstown town centre and Liverpool's commercial core are the main commuter job markets within a short drive.

Nearby Suburbs

Villawood, Chester Hill, Sefton, Yagoona, Condell Park, Georges Hall, Bankstown Aerodrome, Lansdowne

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.

Sources cited in this guide:

• Wikipedia — Bass Hill

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