Freemans Reach, NSW 2756

A quiet, semi-rural riverside town in the City of Hawkesbury, about 65 km north-west of the Sydney CBD, bounded in the south by the Hawkesbury River. At the 2021 census it had 2,049 residents — 84.2% born in Australia — and it is notable for one of Sydney's largest Maltese communities, with Maltese ancestry recorded for 13.7% of residents. Its character is acreage and river-flat farming country: the Dictionary of Sydney describes it as a 'north-western semi-rural suburb on banks of Hawkesbury River', with houses spread along Kurmond Road and the river flats rather than a compact town centre, and it is the home of Hawkesbury High School, the district's government high school (Dictionary of Sydney; Hawkesbury High School website).

At a Glance

Transport

Freemans Reach has no railway station and no rail line through the suburb — the nearest stations are at Windsor (adjacent, to the south-east) and Richmond. Buses are limited: the area is served by Busways regional routes along the Kurmond Road corridor, including weekday school-day service 5516 which runs from Freemans Reach Public School on Kurmond Road to Windsor High School, Windsor Public School and Windsor Station. Transport for NSW describes Freemans Reach school bus services as largely peak/school-focused, and the suburb is otherwise heavily car-dependent.

Schools

Freemans Reach Public School — NSW government K–6 primary school in-suburb, located in a semi-rural area of the Hawkesbury near Windsor, with about 178–194 students (school website; School Infrastructure NSW). Hawkesbury High School — NSW government Year 7–12 comprehensive high school physically located in Freemans Reach at 1 Hibberts Lane, off Kurmond Road (School Infrastructure NSW; school website 'Contact us' page; MapQuest), confirming the school named for the wider Hawkesbury district actually sits within this suburb.

Shopping & Amenities

Freemans Reach is a small semi-rural town with no supermarket or major shopping centre inside its boundaries — its commercial life amounts to a handful of local businesses along Kurmond Road, such as Freemans Reach Cafe at Shop 1/444 Kurmond Road, plus the two local schools and the rural community. Day-to-day shopping, services and the main commercial centre are in immediately adjacent Windsor, which borders Freemans Reach to the south-east.

Parks & Outdoors

The Hawkesbury River forms Freemans Reach's southern boundary, giving the suburb river frontage and river-flat country along its length, with recreation centred on the river and the quiet rural roads and floodplain scenery. The suburb sits on the Hawkesbury floodplain, where river flats have long been farmed, and it is roughly 5 km downstream (north-east) of Windsor's riverfront parklands along the Hawkesbury (Hawkesbury geography; Dictionary of Sydney).

Property Market

The median house price in Freemans Reach was around ~$0.99M–$1.3M median depending on tracker and window (realestate.com.au: median house price $985,000 on 23 sales in 12 months, down 25%; Cotality/RP Data via propertyvalue.com.au: median house value $1.3M on 25 sales; OnTheHouse: median house value $1,254,785; YIP: $1.1M with -4.4% annual growth) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Freemans Reach is a thin, acreage-dominated market: only about 23–25 house sales occur in a typical 12 months, so tracker medians diverge sharply depending on how many large river-flat or acreage blocks sold in the window. Housing is almost entirely separate houses on rural lots in a flood-prone Hawkesbury River valley location; unit/strata stock is negligible and no credible unit median exists (all trackers). The semi-rural setting, river floodplain and distance from Sydney keep prices well below metropolitan medians, with buyers typically local or seeking acreage. Population 2,049 (2021), 79.6% of homes owner-occupied.

New Developments

Development activity in Freemans Reach is minimal — no significant residential estate or commercial project is under way inside the suburb, which remains semi-rural acreage and river-flat country under Hawkesbury LEP rural zoning. The housing market turns over only about 25 homes a year and the district's growth has been directed to release areas such as Glossodia and Pitt Town rather than to Freemans Reach itself.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment in Freemans Reach centres on agriculture and acreage-based rural enterprises, the two in-suburb schools (Hawkesbury High School and Freemans Reach Public School) as local employers, and small Kurmond Road businesses such as the cafe. There is no major industrial or commercial employer in the suburb; working residents commute mainly to nearby Windsor — immediately adjacent to the south-east and the Hawkesbury district's main commercial and services centre — or further afield to the Richmond/Blacktown corridors and Sydney.

Nearby Suburbs

Glossodia, Wilberforce, North Richmond, Richmond Lowlands, Cornwallis, Windsor

Sources & method

Researched 5 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:

• Transport for NSW
• Dictionary of Sydney
• NSW Government

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