Glenorie, NSW 2157

Rural township suburb about 44 km north-west of the Sydney CBD, sitting in both The Hills Shire and Hornsby Shire at the outer north-west edge of the Hills District. Originally part of the wider Dural area and known as Upper (or North) Dural, it was renamed Glenorie in 1894 when the local post office took the name, and the settlement grew as a little township along the Old Northern Road route of the convict-built Great North Road. At the 2021 census Glenorie had 3,792 residents, with almost all occupied dwellings separate houses on acreage — a lifestyle of rural blocks, horse properties and village living rather than suburban estates.

At a Glance

Transport

Glenorie has no railway station or Metro stop in the suburb; public transport is bus-based. CDC NSW route 637 runs Glenorie to Castle Hill via Galston and Round Corner, with the Glenorie Shops stop as the route's outer terminus — roughly a 30-minute run to Castle Hill where the Sydney Metro North West line begins. Bus history is local to the area: the Glenorie Bus Company, founded in the village, was merged into Hillsbus in 2004, part of ComfortDelGro Australia. Beyond scheduled buses, Glenorie relies heavily on private cars and school buses over rural roads.

Schools

Glenorie Public School — NSW government primary school at 1731 Old Northern Road in the village, established in 1888 and still Glenorie's main public school. Hillside Public School — NSW government primary school on Cattai Ridge Road in Glenorie's rural outskirts, established in 1926. The local government high school is Galston High School in the immediately adjoining suburb of Galston to the south-east.

Shopping & Amenities

Glenorie's commercial heart is the small village centre on Old Northern Road — 'Glenorie Village' — with retail shops, an award-winning bakery and cafe, a gym, and the Glenorie RSL Club in the commercial area. The suburb has no major shopping mall or supermarket of its own; shopping is village-scale. Glenorie Village Markets, a monthly boutique market run by the team behind Dural Village Markets, sets up at Les Shore Reserve (2654 Old Northern Road) with around 50 hand-selected stallholders selling local produce, artisan goods, homewares and food (Sydney.com events; Dural Village Markets; Markets Guide).

Parks & Outdoors

Glenorie is an acreage suburb of rural hills, paddocks and bush along the Cattai Creek catchment on the western side, with the scenic Old Northern Road corridor described as one of the most scenic drives in the NSW Hills District (Markets Guide). Les Shore Reserve — a local park and oval set in a pine forest at 2654 Old Northern Road, with a kids' playground and amenities — is the village's main public recreation space and the home of the Glenorie Village Markets (Glenorie Village Markets; Markets Guide; Sydney.com). Despite its semi-rural setting, Glenorie does not border a national park: Berowra Valley National Park lies further east beyond Galston and Arcadia, and Marramarra and Cattai parks sit further out toward the Hawkesbury, so day-to-day open space is the suburb's own rural bushland and reserves.

Property Market

The median house price in Glenorie was around ~$2.5–2.6M (mid-2026): Cotality/OnTheHouse put the Glenorie median house value at $2,547,250 as at 31 July 2026, while quickproperty estimated the current median house price at $2.6M. See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Glenorie is an acreage market: at the 2021 census almost all occupied private dwellings were separate houses on large rural lots, with a median monthly mortgage of $3,000, and the median weekly household income ran well above the NSW figure. House medians here swing widely because sales volume is thin — typically only a handful of acreage transactions a year — and prices depend heavily on land size, from village blocks to 5-acre-plus rural holdings. Note the suburb also carries a sizeable Dharug and pioneer history along the Old Great North Road, and parts of the 'Glenorie' locality fall outside the village itself across both LGAs.

New Developments

Minimal — Glenorie remains rural-zoned acreage with no significant multi-dwelling or greenfield estate development identified in the suburb itself; housing growth in The Hills Shire is concentrated well to the south and east around the Castle Hill–Norwest corridor, leaving Glenorie as one of the Hills' least-developed, large-block villages. New building is essentially individual rural-residential homes and outbuildings on existing acreage lots.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment is service- and community-based: the Glenorie RSL Club, the Glenorie Village shops, cafes and bakery, and the suburb's two public schools are the main in-village employers. Agriculture, horse-keeping and rural services round out the local base, while most working residents commute to the Hills' major employment centres such as Castle Hill, Norwest and Macquarie Park, or to the Sydney CBD, given Glenorie's 'rural character close to the major suburbs' positioning.

Nearby Suburbs

Maroota South, Canoelands, Forest Glen, Cattai, Maraylya, Fiddletown, Arcadia, Kenthurst, Middle Dural, Galston

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:

• ABS Census
• Dictionary of Sydney
• NSW Government

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