Raby, NSW 2566

Quiet, established family suburb about 55 km south-west of the Sydney CBD in the City of Campbelltown LGA's part of the Macarthur region, gazetted in 1976 and built out as private subdivisions from the late 1970s — in 1978 the council chose an 'airplanes of the world' theme for its new streets, so Mustang Drive, Sopwith Avenue and Spitfire Drive came first, later joined by Thunderbolt, Hurricane, De Havilland, Avro, Lockheed, Halifax and other aircraft names. The name honours Alexander Riley's 1809 estate 'Raby' (3,000 acres on the corner of Bringelly and Cowpasture Roads, named for his mother Margaret Raby), where he bred merino sheep and introduced Australia's first cashmere goats. By the early 1990s most of the suburb was complete, with a few pockets — such as Arrow Place and Skyfarmer Place on the old Heathfield Public School site next to the shopping centre — still releasing in 1992. At the 2021 census Raby had 5,943 residents — median age 36, 69.3% born in Australia (England 2.5% and India 2.1% the main overseas birthplaces), Catholic the largest religion at 28.9% — with 78% of homes owner-occupied, households mostly couples with children and the 30–39 age group the largest. Agents describe a family-friendly suburb of 1970s–80s brick houses popular with families and first-home buyers (StMate).

At a Glance

Transport

Raby has no railway station — the suburb is bus-served. Local buses on the Campbelltown district network (Busabout/Transit Systems' 877–880 group) run along the Raby Road corridor at the suburb's fringe, with stops such as 'Raby Village' near the shopping centre and 'Raby Rd & Campbelltown Rd' at the suburb's southern edge feeding the Campbelltown–Eagle Vale–Eschol Park–Kearns loops (Busabout timetable; OSM via Mapy). The nearest T8 Airport & South Line stations are Minto, about 3 km to the north-east through adjacent St Andrews (Minto station is roughly a 40-minute walk from St Andrews' centre), and Leumeah and Campbelltown about 4–5 km away — all reached by bus or a short drive rather than on foot.

Schools

Robert Townson Public School — NSW government K–6 primary school in Raby, opened in 1986 to replace the suburb's original Heathfield Public School, which had operated in demountable classrooms off Hurricane Drive before closing the same year. Robert Townson High School — NSW government comprehensive co-educational high school (Years 7–12) opened in 1987, serving Raby and the surrounding areas of St Andrews, Kearns and Varroville; both schools take their name from local pioneer Robert Townson, and StMate lists them as Raby's two in-suburb schools. Mount Carmel High School — the local Catholic systemic secondary college, now Mount Carmel Catholic College, sits on a large landholding in the neighbouring suburb of Varroville at the suburb's northern foot, adjacent to Mount Carmel Catholic Parish — Raby's closest Catholic secondary option.

Shopping & Amenities

Raby's local shopping is anchored by the Raby Shopping Centre at 2 Hurricane Drive — a neighbourhood centre of 15 or so stores that locals and listings also call Raby Village or Raby Village Shopping Centre, offering a supermarket, chemist, post office, medical centre and cafes. Real-estate and investment sources additionally reference a 'Raby Marketplace' among the suburb's retail options, and the shopping strip off Hurricane Drive dates to the suburb's 1980s Landcom-era development around the old Heathfield school site. For major retail, Macarthur Square — south-western Sydney's largest shopping centre — is about 6.5 km away in Campbelltown.

Parks & Outdoors

Lake Burrendah Reserve — an old farm dam retained as a lake ('Burrendah' is the local Aboriginal word for 'place of the swan') on the site of the former Bunbury-Curran Creek, giving Raby its central lake and surrounding parkland. Raby Sports Complex — council sportsground on the old creek course used by the Campbelltown-Camden District Cricket Club as its home ground in the Sydney Grade Cricket competition, beside Sunderland Reserve. Kooringa Reserve (from the Koori word for 'sheoak') and Blain Reserve (named for the farming Blain family who owned the old Heathfield property) are further local parks. Council data counts 10 parks covering nearly 24.2% of Raby's 2.6 square kilometres, among the greenest pockets of the Campbelltown area.

Property Market

The median house price in Raby was around ~$985K–$1.04M (mid/late-2026): 12-month median house sale price $1,036,500 with +8% growth (PropTrack via Allhomes) and $1,025,000 (CoreLogic via YIP, 67 house sales); Cotality's automated median house value $989,987 (31 May 2026); StMate's 3-bedroom median is $974k with 4-bedroom homes around $1.14M (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Trackers cluster the house median around $985K–1.04M — broadly consistent with the ~$950K–1.15M hint, though the top of that range reflects premium 4–5-bedroom homes rather than the median. Recent 2026 sales: 3-bedroom houses ~$880–975K (48 Lockheed St $880k, 47 Thunderbolt Dr $975k), 4-bedroom to ~$1.1–1.2M (106 Lockheed St $1.20M, 16 Boomerang Crescent $1.10M), duplex/townhouse stock $670–840K (7/101 Hurricane Dr $670k, 1/72 Spitfire Dr $838k) (StMate). 67 properties sold in the 12 months to May 2026. Stock is predominantly 1970s–80s brick family homes on full blocks — 81% of current listings are houses — with 78% owner-occupancy and a thin unit market.

New Developments

Minimal — Raby is a built-out 1970s–80s suburb with no large development pipeline; current activity is residential infill (renovations and occasional dual-occupancy or villa subdivision of original blocks) and resale turnover, the last land pockets having released through the early 1990s on sites like the old Heathfield Public School. Growth pressure comes from the wider Campbelltown growth areas and adjacent release suburbs rather than from within Raby itself.

Jobs & Local Economy

Most Raby workers commute to the Campbelltown–Macarthur jobs hub a short drive south-east — Macarthur Square retail, Campbelltown Hospital and the district's civic, health and education employers — with industrial and logistics employment along the Minto–Ingleburn corridor to the north-east. Local employment is limited to the Raby Shopping Centre retail strip and the suburb's two public schools, with the Catholic college just across the boundary in Varroville. Cotality's 2021 data shows clerical/administration as the most common occupation group in a couples-with-children, 78% owner-occupied suburb.

Nearby Suburbs

Varroville, St Andrews, Kearns, Eschol Park, Eagle Vale

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:

• Transport for NSW
• NSW Government

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