McGraths Hill, NSW 2756

Established family suburb roughly 53 km north-west of the Sydney CBD, between Windsor and Vineyard along the Windsor Road corridor in the City of Hawkesbury. At the 2021 census it had 2,537 residents, with a family-oriented, largely separate-house housing stock. Named after Irish convict James McGrath, who bought land in the area around 1813; the suburb is bounded in the north-west by South Creek shortly before it enters the Hawkesbury River. Local agents describe it as a quiet, established family area with big blocks and good access to Windsor's services and the Windsor Road retail strip, which includes the Bunnings and Harvey Norman stores that carry the McGraths Hill address (andreamonti.com.au, Aug 2026; Bunnings; Harvey Norman).

At a Glance

Transport

McGraths Hill has no railway station within the suburb; the nearest stations are Mulgrave (Mulgrave Road, in the adjacent suburb of Mulgrave) and Windsor (in adjacent Windsor), both on the Richmond railway line and served by Sydney Trains' T1 Western Line services to the Sydney CBD, with T5 Cumberland Line late-night services also calling at Mulgrave. Bus services link the suburb: Busways route 734 runs Riverstone to Windsor via McGraths Hill and Vineyard, and Windsor station is served by nine Busways bus routes under contract to Transport for NSW. Windsor Road, the main north-south arterial through McGraths Hill, connects the suburb to Windsor to the north and to Blacktown and the wider western Sydney road network via the Westlink M7 to the south.

Schools

Windsor High School — NSW government comprehensive high school (Years 7–12) at the corner of Mulgrave and Windsor Roads, physically located in McGraths Hill (NSW Department of Education: windsor-h.schools.nsw.gov.au). McGraths Hill Public School — NSW government primary school (Kindergarten to Year 6) serving the suburb (Property Digger area guide; NSW Department of Education school directory). Adjacent suburbs add Arndell Anglican College (independent K–12) and Oakville Public School in Oakville immediately to the east, and Windsor Public School in Windsor to the north-west.

Shopping & Amenities

A big-box retail strip sits along Windsor Road at the suburb's western edge: Bunnings McGraths Hill and Harvey Norman McGraths Hill at 264–272 Windsor Road, plus a 7-Eleven at 142 Windsor Road (corner of Mulgrave Road) (Bunnings; Harvey Norman; Uber Eats). The suburb has no large town centre of its own — daily shopping is centred on neighbouring Windsor's town centre and the Windsor Road retail corridor, while the local industrial pockets along the Windsor Road/Mulgrave Road edges provide services and trades.

Parks & Outdoors

South Creek, a tributary of the Hawkesbury River, bounds the suburb to the north-west before entering the river near Windsor, giving the suburb's northern edge a rural creek-line and floodplain setting. Residential streets sit on an established grid with small local parks and reserves typical of a Hawkesbury family suburb, and the surrounding area is semi-rural on the Oakville and Pitt Town Bottoms sides.

Property Market

The median house price in McGraths Hill was around ~$1.03M–$1.2M depending on tracker and sales window: OnTheHouse automated median house value $1,033,608; realestate.com.au reports a median house price of $1,195,000 over the past 12 months (range $1,195,000 houses to $873,500 units); buyer's-agent data put the median at $1,204,101 (Aug 2026, +6.3% over 12 months) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. McGraths Hill is an established, mostly separate-house suburb on the fringe of the Hawkesbury market, with a modest number of sales (roughly 46–51 houses per year across trackers) — medians therefore swing noticeably between trackers and windows. Stock is largely older family homes on good-sized blocks plus some newer infill; the suburb's industrial pockets and the Windsor Road retail precinct (Bunnings, Harvey Norman, Aldi nearby) are at its western edge. Buyers typically come from Windsor/South Windsor and the Hills area seeking more space at lower prices than the eastern suburbs.

New Developments

Development is predominantly small-scale residential infill on remaining vacant lots within the established street grid, plus ongoing industrial/commercial activity in the Windsor Road corridor industrial pockets. No major master-planned project is under way within the suburb itself.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment centres on the Windsor Road corridor — the McGraths Hill retail precinct (Bunnings, Harvey Norman) and nearby light-industrial pockets — plus Windsor's commercial and civic hub to the north. Many residents commute to the larger Blacktown, Riverstone and Sydney Hills employment areas via Windsor Road and the M7, or by train from Mulgrave and Windsor stations.

Nearby Suburbs

Windsor, Pitt Town Bottoms, Pitt Town, Oakville, Mulgrave, Vineyard

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:

• Wikipedia — McGraths Hill
• NSW Government

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