One of the five 'Macquarie Towns' established by Governor Macquarie in 1810 and named after British PM William Pitt the Younger, Pitt Town is a historic riverside town 59 km north-west of the Sydney CBD in the City of Hawkesbury, bounded in the north by the Hawkesbury River. The compact heritage village — St James' Anglican Church (1857–58, designed by Edmund Blacket), the 1862 Scots Presbyterian Church, and inns and slab cottages along Bathurst and Eldon Streets — sits at the heart of an acreage and farming district that has been transitioning toward urban residential since 2010. With 3,871 residents at the 2021 census, it remains quiet and semi-rural: historic, tree-lined and river-close, about 9 km from Windsor.
At a Glance
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Region | Hawkesbury |
| Council (LGA) | Hawkesbury City Council |
| Postcode | 2756 |
| Distance to Sydney CBD | Pitt Town is 59 km north-west of the Sydney CBD and 36 km from Parramatta by road. There is no direct rail link:… |
| Median house price | $1,780,000 (median house price over the last 12 months, down 3.3% on the previous 12 months — AusPropertyFinder/AusPropertyInsights, retrieved Sep 2026) (mid-2026) |
| Typical rent | ~$710/week (median weekly rent, 12 months to 2026, AusPropertyFinder postcode-level rental data for 2756) |
Transport
Pitt Town has no railway station — the nearest station is Windsor on the Richmond line, about 9 km south of the town. Public buses are limited and run by Busways: route 672 (Wisemans Ferry to Windsor via Pitt Town & Oakville, loop service) serves the village area, and the broader Pitt Town locality is also linked to school-bus and regional services (Busways). The suburb is reached by road via Pitt Town Road from the McGraths Hill/Windsor side and Pitt Town Bottoms Road to the south, and is car-dependent for most trips.
Schools
Pitt Town Public School — NSW government K–6 primary school on Buckingham Street, the fourth schoolhouse built in Pitt Town. No secondary school sits within Pitt Town or its immediately adjacent rural suburbs; the school catchment links Pitt Town with Oakville Public School (in adjacent Oakville) for primary, and government secondary students fall in the Windsor High School catchment at South Windsor, a short drive south.
Shopping & Amenities
The village core is the Pitt Town Shopping Centre/village shops built in 1987 in the Eldon Street–Bathurst Street precinct (extended along Bathurst Street in 2006), with the heritage Bird in Hand Inn operating as a public inn since 1987 and the former Macquarie Arms Inn (1820s, heritage-listed) nearby. Heritage churches face each other across Bathurst Street — St James' Anglican Church and the Scots Presbyterian Church — and Pitt Town has two cemeteries, the Pitt Town General Cemetery on Old Stock Route Road and St James' Anglican Cemetery on Old Pitt Town Road. It is a small village centre serving the surrounding acreage district; the main commercial hub is Windsor about 9 km south.
Parks & Outdoors
The Hawkesbury River forms Pitt Town's northern boundary, giving the township its historic river setting — a punt ferry ran from the northern end of town across to Wilberforce until the 1920s. The heritage village precinct itself is the main walking draw, and the river flats of Pitt Town Bottoms are overlooked from the northern end of Bathurst Street. Scheyville National Park — bushland, wetlands and riding trails — lies immediately beside the Pitt Town/Oakville/Maraylya area to the south-east, and the RAAF-era Pitt Town Airstrip is now the public Airstrip Road through farmland to the north-east.
Property Market
The median house price in Pitt Town was around $1,780,000 (median house price over the last 12 months, down 3.3% on the previous 12 months — AusPropertyFinder/AusPropertyInsights, retrieved Sep 2026) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Pitt Town is an acreage and house-dominated market with effectively no unit stock, so the median is driven by large blocks and semi-rural homes and the sales count is thin — treat the ~$1.7–1.8M mid-2026 figure as indicative rather than precise (AusPropertyFinder). Listing prices in the district commonly run from the mid-$1Ms for standard blocks to $2M+ for acreage, and 2756 is a shared postcode with the neighbouring Pitt Town Bottoms farmland. Historical growth has been strong — AusPropertyFinder notes the median is up about 486% since 2001 — but volumes are low and individual sales can swing the median noticeably.
New Developments
Development activity is minimal and small-scale compared with metropolitan Sydney: the big mid-20th-century proposals (a second international airport in the late 1980s, a prison at Scheyville) were fought off by the Pitt Town Preservation Society, and growth since 2010 has been gradual residential subdivision of former citrus and farmland around the village. The main current greenfield project is Rivière Pitt Town, a house-and-land estate on the town's fringe marketed with Pitt Town Public School as its local school.
Jobs & Local Economy
Local employment is modest and centres on the village's shops, pubs and services, Pitt Town Public School, and the surrounding rural industries — historically citrus, grain and maize and today turf, horticulture and hobby farms. Most working residents commute out of the suburb: Windsor, about 9 km south, is the nearest town hub, with the broader Richmond–Windsor corridor and western Sydney (Parramatta ~36 km) providing the main employment centres.
Nearby Suburbs
Pitt Town Bottoms, Cattai, Maraylya, Oakville, McGraths Hill, Wilberforce, Freemans Reach
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.
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