Warrimoo, NSW 2774

Warrimoo is a medium-sized bushland village in the lower Blue Mountains, 273 metres above sea level and 68 km west of the Sydney CBD, in the City of Blue Mountains local government area; it sits five train stops from Penrith and 11 from Katoomba on the railway. Formerly called Karabar, the village grew out of the Warrimoo Estate laid out by developer Arthur Rickard from 1918, who encouraged residents to keep orchards, vegetable gardens and chickens, and it retains many historic homes from that era. At the 2021 census it had 2,452 residents with a professional, educated skew — around 30% of workers are professionals, 31% of residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher and the median weekly household income is $2,097. It is best known to Sydneysiders as the village where children's author Dorothy Wall lived from 1934 to 1937 while publishing her Blinky Bill books, a legacy marked by a mural painted at Possum Park in 2015. Today it reads as a quiet, leafy community of family homes and weekenders tucked between the railway and National Park bushland — small-village services, no strip of commercial sprawl, and a train platform that puts Sydney within commuting reach.

At a Glance

Transport

Warrimoo railway station is on the Blue Mountains Line of the NSW TrainLink intercity network, with bike racks at the station; the original 1918 station building burnt down in a bushfire in the 1950s and was subsequently rebuilt. The village is also serviced by bus through Blue Mountains Transit, whose corridor services run along the Great Western Highway through the lower mountains — route 690P links Springwood (via Valley Heights and Warrimoo's highway corridor) with Penrith (TransitApp route data; cdcbus.com.au timetables) — and by Uber. Note the station has been in the news over whether its platform needs renovating to accommodate new, up to 205-metre-long intercity trains ordered by the NSW government.

Schools

Warrimoo Public School — NSW government primary school on Florabella Road, which now occupies the site of an old village distillery. Wycliffe Christian School — independent, non-denominational Christian co-educational day school from early learning through Year 12 (K–12), at 133 Rickard Road, Warrimoo. With Wycliffe covering secondary years in the village, most local children walk or bus to one of these two schools rather than travelling out for schooling.

Shopping & Amenities

Village services are genuinely small-scale and cluster around the station precinct at Warrimoo's centre: the Warrimoo General Store & LPO (a combined general store and licensed post office, recently offered for sale as a going concern) and the Warrimoo Citizens Hall sit at the heart of the village. There is no supermarket, shopping centre or major retail strip within the village itself — everyday shopping beyond the general store means travelling to a neighbouring centre, which suits the village's quiet, residential character.

Parks & Outdoors

The village is laced with pocket parks — Ardill Park, Arthur St Park, Possum Park (site of the 2015 Blinky Bill mural honouring Dorothy Wall), Terrymont Rd Park and the Cross St Nature Reserve — with tennis courts and Warrimoo Oval on Rickard Rd. The Florabella Pass track is a popular bushwalk linking Warrimoo and neighbouring Blaxland, and the village sits at the bushland fringe of the Blue Mountains, where walking tracks within the Blue Mountains National Park are heritage-listed. Arthur Rickard's orchard-and-chicken-farm origins still show in the leafy, semi-rural lots that edge the bush.

Property Market

The median house price in Warrimoo was around ≈$1.0–1.1M — YIP (CoreLogic) puts the Warrimoo median house price at $1,052,500 on 38 house sales over the past 12 months, with houses averaging ~14 days on market; Cotality data via OnTheHouse (updated 4 Sep 2026) records a median house value of $998,087; auspropertyfinder.com.au cites a $1.07M median house price (+14.9% YoY) (mid-2026). See our full Sydney property price map for how the suburb compares across the city. Small, slow-turnover village market — roughly 38–39 house sales in the past 12 months across trackers — so medians swing on a handful of transactions and tracker estimates span roughly $1.0–1.07M. Stock is largely free-standing houses on bushland blocks plus older 1918-era Rickard estate homes and weekenders; no unit/apartment market to speak of. Demand drivers are the quiet bushland lifestyle, school options (Warrimoo PS, Wycliffe Christian K–12) and the 70–80-minute rail commute to the CBD.

New Developments

Minimal development pipeline. Growth is hemmed in by bushland reserves, council open space and National Park, and no significant residential or commercial projects were identified in sources. The most newsworthy recent item is transport infrastructure rather than housing: Warrimoo station's platform may need renovating or extending to accommodate the NSW government's new South Korean-built intercity trains, which are up to 205 metres long — a decision that has stirred local controversy.

Jobs & Local Economy

Local employment is limited to village-scale services — the two schools (Warrimoo Public School and Wycliffe Christian School), the General Store & LPO and the Citizens Hall precinct — so the resident workforce is notably commuter-and-remote oriented: around 30% of workers are professionals and 31% of residents hold degrees, with the 2021 census household income of $2,097/week well above the Blue Mountains village norm. Many residents commute by train toward Penrith, Parramatta and the Sydney CBD, or work remotely from the bushland village.

Nearby Suburbs

Blaxland, Mount Riverview, Sun Valley, Valley Heights

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:

• Transport for NSW

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