Kemps Creek, NSW 2178

Kemps Creek is a semi-rural suburb about 39 km west of the Sydney CBD, straddling the City of Penrith and City of Liverpool local government areas at the eastern edge of the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, and part of the Greater Western Sydney region. Named after Anthony Fenn Kemp, who received a 300-acre grant straddling Elizabeth Drive and Mamre Road in 1810, it is a suburb in transition: the southern and central parts still hold acreage hobby farms, a small Elizabeth Drive village strip and creek-lined paddocks, while the northern half has been given over to vast new logistics and industrial estates such as The YARDS, Mirvac's Aspect Industrial Estate and Yiribana along the Mamre Road corridor. The 2021 census counted 2,121 residents, down 6.5% from 2,268 in 2016 as land has been resumed and rezoned for the Aerotropolis.

At a Glance

Transport

Bus-based and car-dependent — Kemps Creek has no railway station and no metro stop. The suburb is connected by the M12 Motorway, the toll-free east–west freeway linking the Westlink M7 with The Northern Road that opened on 14 March 2026 with a free Elizabeth Drive interchange; Mamre Road runs south-east to north-west through the suburb and Elizabeth Drive crosses its southern part, giving direct road access to Western Sydney International Airport a few kilometres west. Bus services along Elizabeth Drive and Mamre Road are limited and infrequent; the nearest train stations are St Marys (T1) to the north and Leppington (T2/T5) to the south, each a drive away, and Transport for NSW's 'New Bus Services for Western Sydney' program is progressively extending bus coverage to the Aerotropolis precincts.

Schools

Kemps Creek has five schools within the suburb: Kemps Creek Public School, the NSW government primary school at 100 Cross Street whose history traces back to the Exeter Farm School established in 1885 ; Christadelphian Heritage College Sydney, an independent Christian school also on Cross Street ; and three schools on Bakers Lane in the suburb's north — Mamre Anglican School (independent, founded 1979, at 45 Bakers Lane), Trinity Catholic Primary School and Emmaus Catholic College.

Shopping & Amenities

A village-scale commercial strip runs along Elizabeth Drive with a Rural Fire Service station, petrol stations, cafes, a post office and Bill Anderson Park, which has a playground and toilets. The Kemps Creek commercial area is also home to the Animal Welfare League NSW shelter, which rehomes surrendered and abandoned animals and offers pet boarding. There is no shopping centre or supermarket in the suburb — residents travel to adjoining centres for major retail.

Parks & Outdoors

Rural acreage and waterways dominate the non-industrial parts: the suburb is bounded to the west by South Creek and to the south-east by the Kemps Creek watercourse, with a number of reservoirs dotting the landscape and the creeks draining into the Wianamatta–South Creek corridor. Parks include Kemps Creek Memorial Park on Western Road and Bill Anderson Park on Elizabeth Drive; parkland covers only about 0.5% of the suburb's roughly 33.1 km² across seven parks. The heritage Mills Cross radio telescope stands at the University of Sydney's Fleurs Radio Observatory between South Creek and the main reservoir — a relic of the area's post-war radio-astronomy history amid the paddocks.

Property Market

The median house price in Kemps Creek was around $2.8M–$5.1M (land-inclusive, highly volatile and thinly traded): Cotality via OnTheHouse puts the median house value at $2,815,211 (31 May 2026) while Carto Australia charts a median house price of $5,100,000 (27 Aug 2026) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Thin market — Cotality records just 20 property sales in the 12 months to May 2026 for a suburb of 831 properties, and medians swing wildly with the mix of acreage homes, rezoned land and industrial parcels. Typical residential sales are acreage holdings (roughly 2,000 m² and up): recent examples include 1802 Elizabeth Drive at $5,700,000 on 19,000 m², 14 Sumbray Avenue at $6,500,000 on 20,470 m², 190 Cross Street at $3,250,000 on 20,790 m² and 18 Turnbull Avenue at $2,200,000 on 25,490 m², while older small homes can trade below $1M (5 Exeter Road, $715,000) (proplo). Separate huge industrial-parcel sales — such as 78 Lockwood Road at $156.7M (77,240 m²) and 931 Mamre Road at $25M (103,000 m²) — sit outside the residential picture but can distort tracker medians (proplo). The roughly $1.4–2.0M range sometimes quoted for the suburb understates what acreage actually sells for since 2025; expect any 'median' to keep jumping as industrial and acreage transactions mix.

New Developments

Kemps Creek sits at the eastern gateway of the Western Sydney Aerotropolis, an 11,200 ha planned precinct across the Penrith and Liverpool LGAs that is being delivered from 2026 through to 2056 with about $14 billion of private investment forecast (Western Sydney Trades 2026 guide). The Mamre Road Precinct — roughly 1,020 ha of industrial and freight land at Kemps Creek, anchored by Sydney Water's $644M stormwater scheme — is the suburb's core growth area, alongside the Aerotropolis' Northern Gateway precinct fronting the M12 corridor (Western Sydney Trades). Large logistics estates already operate in the northern half of the suburb: The YARDS, Mirvac's Aspect Industrial Estate on the Aerotropolis site and Yiribana, with more warehouse and freight development following the M12 Motorway's opening in March 2026.

Jobs & Local Economy

Logistics, warehousing and industrial work along the M7/M12 corridor and Mamre Road employment lands are the suburb's biggest and fastest-growing employment base, anchored by estates such as The YARDS, Aspect and Yiribana. Construction and trades are in sustained demand through the Aerotropolis building pipeline of 2026–2030, including civil and warehouse fit-out work around the Mamre Road Precinct and the airport's stormwater infrastructure (Western Sydney Trades). Agriculture and hobby-farm operations still occupy the remaining acreage, and local services (Rural Fire Service, Animal Welfare League NSW shelter, village businesses on Elizabeth Drive) provide community-based jobs.

Nearby Suburbs

Orchard Hills, Erskine Park, Horsley Park, Luddenham, Badgerys Creek, Mount Vernon, Cecil Park, Bradfield, Rossmore, Austral

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 — Kemps Creek
• NSW Government

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