Multicultural family suburb about 20 km west of the Sydney CBD, most of it in the City of Canterbury-Bankstown with an eastern part in the Municipality of Strathfield. At the 2021 census it had 26,314 residents with a young family profile — median age 33 and 23.9% aged 14 and under — and a strongly Lebanese-Australian, Muslim community: 52.9% born in Australia, top overseas birthplaces Lebanon 13.0% and Vietnam 2.2%, Arabic spoken at home by 38.7%, Islam the most common religion at 46.8% followed by Catholic 20.3%, and Lebanese the leading ancestry at 31.6%. Known for its family-oriented, mixed housing, its Waterloo Road shop strips and a notable cluster of Islamic schools and mosques — including Al Noori Muslim School, Malek Fahd Islamic School and the Khaled Ibn Al Walid Mosque.
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Canterbury-Bankstown |
| Council (LGA) | City of Canterbury-Bankstown |
| Postcode | 2190 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Around 45–60 minutes door-to-door by public transport: a local bus to Bankstown, Punchbowl or Lakemba station (the nearest, Punchbowl… |
| Median house price | ~$1.53M (median over 24 months to July 2026, 401 house sales, NSW Valuer General records via PropertyGo); trackers bracket it $1.425M–$1.6M — realestate.com.au lists a 3-bedroom house median of $1,425,000 (July 2025–July 2026) and PropertyGo's 12-month median is about $1.6M (mid-2026) |
| Median unit price | $820,000 (median unit price, 141 strata sales over 24 months to July 2026, PropertyGo) |
| Typical rent | ~$820/week (median rent for a 3-bedroom house, 99 bonds over 12 months, PropertyGo); gross rental yield about 2.8% |
| Price growth | +75.5% over 10 years and +34.4% over 5 years on the repeat-sales index; houses +9.8% over the latest 1 year (PropertyGo, to July 2026) |
Transport
Greenacre has no railway station — public transport is bus-based, with services operating to and from Strathfield, Burwood, Punchbowl, Lakemba and Bankstown railway stations. The nearest station is Punchbowl Railway Station, about 1.0 km from the suburb on its south-eastern edge (PropertyGo); Punchbowl, Lakemba and Bankstown stations — all in immediately adjoining suburbs — sit on the Bankstown line, which closed for conversion to Sydney Metro services in September 2024 with reopening as the Metro North West & Bankstown Line scheduled around October 2026. Main roads through the suburb include Waterloo Road, Juno Parade, Boronia Road and Highview Avenue, with the northern limit at Liverpool Road (Hume Highway).
Schools
Greenacre is well served by in-suburb schools. Government primary schools are Greenacre Public School, Banksia Road Public School and Chullora Public School. Independent and faith schools include Greenacre Christian College (the suburb's Baptist-founded college), St John Vianney's Primary School, Holy Saviour Catholic School, Al Noori Muslim School (K–12), Malek Fahd Islamic School, An Nahyan Islamic School, Al Sadiq College and Sydney Full Gospel Church School. There is no government high school in Greenacre; secondary students attend nearby government high schools in adjoining suburbs such as Bankstown, alongside the in-suburb independent colleges.
Universities
No university campus in Greenacre itself; the nearest is Western Sydney University's Bankstown City Campus at 74 Rickard Road in the immediately adjoining suburb of Bankstown — the state-of-the-art campus officially opened in December 2022 and commenced teaching in early 2023 (Western Sydney University).
Shopping & Amenities
Retail is built around local, independent strip shopping: the southern parts of Greenacre are serviced by a strip of local shops and outlets along Waterloo Road and around the intersection of Juno Parade and Boronia Road, while businesses in the northern parts are identified with neighbouring Chullora. Chullora Market Place — a small neighbourhood shopping centre at 355–357 Waterloo Road — sits just across the border in the adjoining suburb of Chullora (Chullora Market Place). Community facilities in-suburb include the Greenacre Library and Knowledge Centre on Community Place (public library, youth centre and community centre), the Greenacre Area Community Centre at 87 Waterloo Road, and a bowling club and an RSL club on Roberts Road.
Parks & Outdoors
Greenacre has numerous neighbourhood parks and reserves, mostly named in Wikipedia's suburb article: Roberts Park at 105 Waterloo Road (home ground of the Greenacre Tigers rugby league club), Northcote Park (Waterloo/Northcote Roads corner), Allum Park (Maiden Street), Lockwood Park (352 Waterloo Road), Gosling Park (103 Chiswick Road), Greenacre Heights Reserve (off Greenacre Road and Hillcrest Avenue), Bromley Reserve, Mimosa Reserve (54 Mimosa Road), Norm Nelson Reserve (239A Roberts Road), Lee Park (41 Russell Street) and Norfolk Reserve, bounded by Chullora Market Place and Norfolk Village. Local sport also includes three soccer clubs — Chullora Wolves, East Bankstown and Greenacre Eagles — plus the bowls club and RSL club on Roberts Road.
Property Market
The median house price in Greenacre was around ~$1.53M (median over 24 months to July 2026, 401 house sales, NSW Valuer General records via PropertyGo); trackers bracket it $1.425M–$1.6M — realestate.com.au lists a 3-bedroom house median of $1,425,000 (July 2025–July 2026) and PropertyGo's 12-month median is about $1.6M (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. A family-oriented, mixed market: houses dominate (about 42% of dwellings are 3-bedroom and 27% 4-bedroom) with a unit sector on the rise; tenure is roughly a third each owned outright (30.0%), owned with a mortgage (33.1%) and rented (32.4%) (PropertyGo). The middle half of the 401 house sales over 24 months landed between $1,350,000 and $1,765,000 (PropertyGo). Medians vary by tracker and window — 24-month median $1.53M vs 12-month ~$1.6M (PropertyGo) and REA's 3-bedroom figure $1.425M — so a ~$1.4–1.6M band is the honest summary.
New Developments
Growth is mostly infill rather than masterplanned: Greenacre is an established suburb — subdivided from the early 1900s (the Greenacre Park Estate was one of the area's first subdivisions in 1909) and previously known as East Bankstown — where new supply comes from knockdown-rebuilds, dual occupancies and secondary dwellings on existing lots. The main non-residential development focus is the northern and eastern edges: railway and industrial land around the former Enfield Marshalling Yards (which defines the eastern boundary) and the logistics/industrial corridor toward adjoining Chullora, which the eastern part of the suburb and the area north of Liverpool Road were historically part of. No large residential tower or estate projects are recorded for the suburb itself.
Jobs & Local Economy
Local employment is mainly retail and community services: the independent shops and eateries along Waterloo Road and around Juno Parade/Boronia Road, the Chullora Market Place centre just over the border, and facilities such as the library, schools, mosques, medical services and clubs. The northern industrial/logistics estates around Chullora and the Enfield rail yards (adjoining) plus the commercial centre of adjacent Bankstown are the closest employment clusters, while many residents commute to the Sydney CBD about 20 km away or to the Bankstown/Liverpool corridor.
Nearby Suburbs
Bankstown, Yagoona, Mount Lewis, Punchbowl, Lakemba, Belmore, Belfield, Strathfield South, Chullora, Rookwood
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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