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Doonside (Woodcroft area)

New South Wales · Blacktown, Sydney - Blacktown

Live · ABS ERP June 2025

The median age is 36, lower than the middle New South Wales area (40, Census 2021). Children under 15 are 20.0% of residents, against 17.9% in the middle New South Wales area (Census 2021).

Doonside (Woodcroft area) has 6 schools (4 government, 2 non-government; ACARA School Profile 2025) and 14 NQS-rated childcare services (ACECQA register). The median house price is $1,099,000, -2.5% YoY (NSW DCJ Sales Mar 2026). Population is 23,958 (ABS ERP June 2025).

Doonside (Woodcroft area) at a glance

Median house price
$1,099,000
Down 2.5% in a year
Rent: $650 a week, 3-bedroom house
Family-Fit score
68/100
Strong for families
How it is calculated
Schools
6
Area centre zoned to Doonside Public School
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Childcare services
14
12 rated Meeting NQS or above
Population
23,958
+0.1% in a year
Median age
36
20.0% are children under 15
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How the Family-Fit score is built68/100

Family-Fit score

Method published in full
68 /100
Strong for families

Strong for families - strongest on childcare & early years, weakest on housing affordability.

Schools in the area · 20% of the score
67/100

NSW median 70/100

6 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 935

Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
100/100

NSW median 90/100

14 NQS-rated services nearby

Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
89/100

NSW median 78/100

24 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 2 supermarkets · 24 playgrounds

Getting around · 15% of the score
50/100

NSW median 50/100

1 train station in this SA2 (no train-time data for NSW yet)

Housing affordability · 15% of the score
42/100

NSW median 38/100

Paying over 30% of income on housing: 18.4% of mortgage-holding households, 29.1% of renting households

Families already here · 10% of the score
83/100

NSW median 67/100

20.0% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 54.9% of families are couples with children

Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
44/100

NSW median 56/100

SEIFA IRSAD decile 5 of 10 nationally

The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 612 New South Wales areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 64/100). It is context, not a pass mark.

How this score is calculated

Each published figure for the Doonside - Woodcroft SA2 is mapped onto 0–100 by fixed thresholds, then weighted. Inputs with no data here are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. Every threshold and weight →

Schools in the area 67/100 × 20% → 13.4 points
6 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 935
Childcare & early years 100/100 × 15% → 15 points
14 NQS-rated services nearby
Everyday amenities 89/100 × 15% → 13.3 points
24 parks · no GP mapped (not counted) · 2 supermarkets · 24 playgrounds
Getting around 50/100 × 15% → 7.5 points
1 train station in this SA2 (no train-time data for NSW yet)
Housing affordability 42/100 × 15% → 6.3 points
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 18.4% of mortgage-holding households, 29.1% of renting households
Families already here 83/100 × 10% → 8.3 points
20.0% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 54.9% of families are couples with children
Socio-economic profile 44/100 × 10% → 4.4 points
SEIFA IRSAD decile 5 of 10 nationally

School results, crime and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Limits of the score →

What families notice
In their own terms

What families notice

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Families often notice
  • This address is zoned to Doonside Public School (government, no fees).
  • Recorded incidents are down 10% on the year before.
  • 24 parks mapped inside this SA2 (OpenStreetMap).
Source: Templated from the live data on this page - ABS, ACARA, ACECQA, BOCSAR/CSA Victoria, SEIFA 2021.
Living in Doonside - Woodcroft: family snapshot
Family snapshot

Living in Doonside - Woodcroft

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A large suburb particularly popular with young families. Strong Philippines and India communities here (2021 Census). Many childcare options nearby - 14 NQS-rated services. Mostly detached family homes.

Source: ABS population estimates · ABS Census 2021 · ACARA · ACECQA
Doonside (Woodcroft area) compared with New South Wales10 measures
Doonside - Woodcroft compared with the NSW average
Measure Doonside - Woodcroft NSW average Against NSW
Children aged 0 to 4 6.2% 5.8% About the same
Children aged 5 to 14 13.8% 12.4% Higher
Couple families with children 54.9% 44.5% Higher
One-parent families 18.5% 15.9% Higher
Homes owned outright 22.7% 31.9% Lower
Homes owned with a mortgage 40.5% 33.7% Higher
Homes rented 35.8% 32.5% Higher
Separate houses 87.5% 67.4% Higher
Flats and apartments 1.5% 20.3% Lower
Born overseas 50.1% 29.3% Higher

Source: ABS Census 2021. The NSW figure is the population-weighted average of the 641 NSW areas with a published value. "Higher" and "Lower" describe the number only.

About this area and its boundary

Doonside - Woodcroft is a locality in the Blacktown area of New South Wales. This profile draws on ABS population and Census figures, the ACARA school register and ACECQA childcare ratings for the Doonside - Woodcroft SA2.

23,958 residents - 20.0% are children under 15, median age 36, the largest overseas-born community is Philippines (12.5%).

Why “Doonside - Woodcroft”? The ABS divides the larger suburb of Doonside into several statistical areas (SA2s); this profile covers one part of it. Other parts are listed further down. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburbs of Doonside, Woodcroft and Bungarribee, drawn separately on the map above.

Property market

The median house price is $1,099,000, down 2.5% in a year, and a 3-bedroom house rents for a median $650 a week.

Median house price
$1,099,000
Mar 2026
House price, change in a year
-2.5%
Median rent, 3-bedroom house
$650
per week

Source: NSW DCJ Sales Mar 2026 · Rent Jun 2026. © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice).

Homes and households

Who owns the homes
23% Owned outright 41% Mortgage 36% Rented
Families
55% Couple with children 25% Couple, no children 19% One parent
Types of home
88% House 11% Townhouse 2% Apartment

Source: ABS Census 2021. Where the shares do not add to 100%, the rest is "other" or "not stated".

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Housing cost pressuremortgage and rent against income
What households here actually pay

Housing cost pressure

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In Doonside - Woodcroft, 29.1% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 18.4% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).

ABS published figures, not our calculation.

Mortgage over 30% of income
18.4%

NSW avg 17.3%

Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 516 of 2,473 households with a stated repayment.

Rent over 30% of income
29.1%

NSW avg 35.5%

Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 722 of 2,243 households with a stated rent.

The two figures cover different households (mortgage-holding vs renting), so never add them. How the ABS counts these → Grey marker: NSW average (622 for mortgage and 622 for rent). Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.

Source: ABS Census 2021 - Mortgage & Rent Affordability Indicator Datasets (via ABS Data by Region, SA2)
What's being built herenew homes approved, year by year
Doonside - Woodcroft · new dwellings approved

What's being built here

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37 new homes were approved in Doonside - Woodcroft in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 266 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.

37

Approved in the year to June 2025

Middle NSW area: 37

217

Separate houses

Private sector, over these 6 years

47

Townhouses & apartments

Private sector, over these 6 years

Counts are for the whole Doonside - Woodcroft statistical area. What these counts include → Dashed line: the median of 599New South Wales areas.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Data by region, 2011-2025 (cat. 1410.0), sourced from ABS Building Approvals, Australia (cat. 8731.0) (source, CC BY 4.0). Each year is a year ended 30 June, published for the SA2, not the suburb.

Schools and childcare

6 schools are located in the area, and the centre of the area is zoned to Doonside Public School. 14 childcare services are on the national register, 12 rated Meeting the National Quality Standard or above.

Your zoned school Live VIC + NSW + QLD catchments

Doonside Public School

The government school your child can attend for free by living in Doonside - Woodcroft.

Sector Government
Years P-6
Students 258
ICSEA 900
A picture of students’ family backgrounds - not a ranking or a quality score.

This is the zoned government school for the centre of Doonside - Woodcroft (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

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Zoned secondary school
Doonside High School Government · 7-12 · 715 students
ICSEA 917 intake context

The government Year 7 zone for the centre of Doonside - Woodcroft (NSW catchment data) - addresses elsewhere in the suburb may be zoned to a different school.

Also nearby - Catholic & Independent schools (not your catchment)
Mountain View Adventist College
Independent 592 students
ICSEA 1041 intake context
St John Vianney's Primary School
Catholic 348 students
ICSEA 1083 intake context

Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.

We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.

All school zones in the Blacktown council area →

To look beyond Doonside - Woodcroft, every New South Wales school is on the Australian schools and catchment zones map.

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Schools in Doonside - Woodcroft

ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). Source: ACARA School Profile 2025. All NSW schools →

Childcare: 14 services

Exceeding NQS: 1Meeting NQS: 11Working Towards NQS: 1Not yet rated: 1

National Quality Standard ratings from the ACECQA register, refreshed Oct 2026. Services are matched by suburb name.

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Childcare services, ratings and fees14 services
  • Young Academics Early Learning Centre Woodcroft
    Centre-Based Care · 29 places · Woodcroft
    Rated May 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Exceeding NQS
  • Crawford Public School TheirCare
    Centre-Based Care · 80 places · Doonside
    Rated Mar 2025
    Meeting NQS
  • Young Academics Early Learning Centre Woodcroft, Cobblestone
    Centre-Based Care · 59 places · Woodcroft
    Rated Aug 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Doonside Kindergarten
    Centre-Based Care · 40 places · Doonside
    Rated Jul 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Kids' Early Learning Blacktown City Doonside North
    Centre-Based Care · 40 places · Doonside
    Rated Dec 2023
    Meeting NQS
  • Kids' Early Learning Blacktown City Doonside South
    Centre-Based Care · 40 places · Doonside
    Rated Jul 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • KINDERCARE OOSH
    Centre-Based Care · 36 places · Doonside
    Rated Nov 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Bright Future Child Care Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 29 places · Doonside
    Rated Oct 2024
    Meeting NQS
  • Kindercare Learning Centre
    Centre-Based Care · 29 places · Doonside
    Rated Jan 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Funny Days
    Centre-Based Care · 28 places · Doonside
    Rated Dec 2022 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
    Meeting NQS
  • Camp Australia - Doonside Public School OSHC
    Centre-Based Care · 23 places · Doonside
    Rated Jul 2026
    Meeting NQS
  • Doonside Public School Wingarra Preschool
    Centre-Based Care · 20 places · Doonside
    Rated Dec 2024
    Meeting NQS

+ 2 more services in this area.

Average subsidised fee - Blacktown area
Centre-based day care
$13.61/hr
Outside school hours care
$9.21/hr

Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education, © Commonwealth of Australia, CC BY 4.0. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Blacktown and surrounds, not this specific service list.

Verify locations before visiting. A rating over 3 years old is flagged. What the NQS ratings mean → Childcare places per child, by suburb →

Who lives here

More people born overseas than New South Wales overall: 50.1% of residents, against 29.3% statewide.

Median age
36
ABS Census 2021
Children under 15
20.0%
Above the NSW average
Born overseas
50.1%
Above the NSW average
Density
2,417
people per km²

Ages of people here

Doonside - Woodcroft NSW average

Share of residents in each age band, in years. Source: ABS Census 2021.

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How the area is changingCensus 2011 to 2021
People counted at the Census, 2011 to 2021
+3,879 people
2011: 19,505 2021: 23,384
Median age, 2011 to 2021
+3 years
2011: 33 2021: 36
Children aged 0 to 14, 2011 to 2021
−1.5 points
2011: 21.5% 2021: 20.0%
Born overseas, 2011 to 2021
+4.8 points
2011: 45.3% 2021: 50.1%
Speak another language at home, 2011 to 2021
+8.0 points
2011: 48.3% 2021: 56.3%
Blacktown council area, official forecast
+165,520 people
2021: 404,170 2041: 569,690

Each line is drawn on its own scale, so compare the numbers, not the heights. Source: ABS Census 2011, 2016 and 2021; Travel Zone Projections 2024 (TZP24), Transport for NSW forecast, published for the council area, not the suburb.

Census trends against the middle NSW areafull charts
Three censuses, same boundaries

Which way this area is moving

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The 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses for Doonside - Woodcroft, counted on today's boundaries.

Since 2011, Doonside - Woodcroft has grown older, with more residents born overseas and more residents speaking another language at home.

People counted
+3,879 people since 2011

Usual residents counted on Census night.

Median age
+3 years since 2011

Half the residents are older than this, half younger.

Children aged 0–14
−1.5 pts since 2011

Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.

Born overseas
+4.8 pts since 2011

Share of all residents born outside Australia.

Speak another language at home
+8.0 pts since 2011

Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.

The dashed line is the median across the New South Wales areas we profile. How the three Censuses line up →

Source: ABS Census Time Series Profile 2021 (2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses, SA2)
How many people will live around hereofficial forecast
Blacktown council area · official projection

How many people will live around here

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The rest of this page looks backwards. This is the one number that looks forward - and it is the state government's own, not ours. Travel Zone Projections 2024 (Transport for NSW) projects the Blacktown council area, which contains Doonside - Woodcroft along with its neighbouring suburbs, to grow to 569,690 people by 2041: 165,520 more people than the 404,170 counted in 2021.

This is the council area, not Doonside - Woodcroft. Blacktown is a whole local government area covering many suburbs, and neither state publishes a projection for a single suburb. Growth is never spread evenly across a council - a greenfield estate and an established street inside the same council will move very differently - so read this as the direction of the wider area a suburb sits in, not as a forecast for its own streets. Only the years the publisher itself lists are plotted: nothing is filled in between them, and nothing is carried past 2041. A projection is an assumption about the future, not a measurement of it, and it will be revised - this one was released 2024. These figures sit on the projection's own series, so they are not directly comparable with the ABS resident-population and Census counts elsewhere on this page, which use different geographies and different years.

Source: Travel Zone Projections 2024 (TZP24), Transport for NSW, released 2024 (source, CC BY 4.0). Published for the council area, not the suburb; figures rounded to the nearest 10.
Where this year's population change came from+0.10% in a year
Population
23,958
ABS estimate, June 2025
Growth in one year
+0.10%
2024 to 2025
Net change
+22
people in a year

Where did the gain come from?

+22
Natural increase
Births minus deaths
+172
Internal migration
Net movers from elsewhere in Australia
-442
Overseas migration
Net arrivals from overseas
+292

Reading the streams: overseas arrivals were the dominant force - more came from abroad than the suburb grew on its own.

Growth vs benchmarks
Doonside - Woodcroft
+0.10%
NSW median
+0.60%
National median
+0.80%
Ages against the state average, band by band
The neighbourhood, in people

Ages of people here

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13.8% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - more than the New South Wales average of 12.4%, and 6.2% are under 5. The median age is 36.

0–4 years · before school
6.2%

NSW avg 5.8%

5–14 years · school age
13.8%

NSW avg 12.4%

15–19 years · teens
6.4%

NSW avg 5.7%

20–34 years
20.9%

NSW avg 20.3%

35–54 years
28.2%

NSW avg 26.3%

55–64 years
11.7%

NSW avg 11.9%

65 years and over
12.8%

NSW avg 17.6%

Share of all residents of Doonside - Woodcroft (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the New South Wales average. How the bands and averages work →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Households and families
The neighbourhood, in people

Households and families

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73% of families here have children living at home - more than the New South Wales average of 60%. The largest overseas-born communities are Philippines (12.5%), India (10.6%) and Fiji (3.6%). 36% of homes are rented.

Family make-up

Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.

Couple with children
54.9%

NSW avg 44.5%

One-parent family
18.5%

NSW avg 15.9%

Couple, no children
24.6%

NSW avg 37.9%

What people live in

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.

Separate house
87.5%

NSW avg 67.4%

Semi-detached / townhouse
11%

NSW avg 11.6%

Flat or apartment
1.5%

NSW avg 20.3%

Owned or rented

Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.

Owned outright
22.7%

NSW avg 31.9%

Owned with a mortgage
40.5%

NSW avg 33.7%

Rented
35.8%

NSW avg 32.5%

Figures describe Doonside - Woodcroft (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census; the grey marker is the New South Wales average. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)
Birthplaces, languages and communities
The neighbourhood, in people

Who lives in Doonside - Woodcroft

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Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 69.9% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.

Philippines · established by 2016
12.5%

NSW avg 0.9%

India · established by 2016
10.6%

NSW avg 2.3%

Fiji · established by 2016
3.6%

NSW avg 0.2%

New Zealand · established by 2016
1.9%

NSW avg 1.1%

Sri Lanka · established by 2016
1.5%

NSW avg 0.1%

Co-located communities
Doonside - Woodcroft is home to established Philippines, India and Fiji communities - each is 2% or more of residents born overseas here, not a ranking of one against another.
Nearby
Blacktown (North) - Marayong, Blacktown - West and Glendenning - Dean Park also have an established Philippines community.
Settlement pattern
Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 14.1% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (NSW avg 16.2%) and 45.3% arrived before 2001 (NSW avg 52%).
English at home
Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 10.4% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (NSW avg 13.5%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.

Figures describe Doonside - Woodcroft (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per area, so a missing name did not rank in the top five. How these are counted →

Source: ABS Census 2021, General Community Profile (SA2)

Community guides that include Doonside - Woodcroft: Filipino community in Sydney

Socio-economic index (SEIFA)decile 5 of 10
Decile (1 lowest, 10 highest)
Decile 5 of 10
Where this sits in NSW
bottom 50% of New South Wales areas

A relative comparison of the whole area against all of Australia - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure. What IRSAD measures → Source: ABS SEIFA 2021, IRSAD index (SA2).

Getting around and lifestyle

2 supermarkets and 24 parks are mapped in the area, and the nearest emergency department is Mount Druitt Hospital, 3.8 km away in a straight line.

2
Supermarkets
Middle NSW area: 2
None mapped
GPs
Middle NSW area: 0
24
Parks
Middle NSW area: 17
24
Playgrounds
Middle NSW area: 8
1
Train stations
Middle NSW area: 0
None mapped
Libraries
Middle NSW area: 1

Mapped inside the Doonside - Woodcroft boundary. A zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there". Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors.

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Train to the city and nearest emergency department

Train to the city

Not published

New South Wales publishes its timetable data behind a free developer account we have not yet set up, so we show no travel time here. This is a gap on our side, not a statement about the transport in this area.

Nearest emergency department

Mapped

Mount Druitt Hospital · 3.8 km

Straight-line distance from the middle of this area - not a drive time. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.

Community and recreation
1
Places of worship
Middle NSW area: 1
None mapped
Community centres
Middle NSW area: 0
None mapped
Swimming pools
Middle NSW area: 0
None mapped
Sport and fitness venues
Middle NSW area: 1
Out with a baby
3
Baby-change tables
None mapped
Baby-care rooms

Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.

About this data

Counts of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the Doonside - Woodcroft boundary. “Middle NSW area”: the median of 634 New South Wales areas. How these counts and times are made →

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors · baby-facility counts from the National Public Toilet Map (Continence Foundation of Australia, funded by the Australian Government Department of Health, Disability and Ageing, CC BY 3.0 AU)

Crime & safety in Doonside - Woodcroft

Police recorded 1,123 incidents in Doonside - Woodcroft in Jan-Dec 2025, down 10% on the year before. This is a raw count, not a rate or a rating.

Recorded incidents, 2025
1,123
Change on the year before
-10%
1,252 in 2024
Recorded incidents, 2021
1,931

Largest offence categories

Theft 225
Assault 195
Against justice procedures 169
Intimidation, stalking and harassment 151
Malicious damage to property 96
LGA rate, as published: Blacktown council areaJuly 2025 - June 2026

These rows cover the whole Blacktown council area, which is larger than Doonside - Woodcroft. The agency publishes a rate for each major offence, not one total, so there is no total row. We do not calculate rates.

OffenceRecorded incidentsPer 100,000 people
Domestic violence related assault2,673609.1
Non-domestic violence related assault1,781405.8
Sexual assault586133.5
Sexual touching, sexual act and other sexual offences454103.5
Robbery17539.9
Break and enter dwelling711162.0
Break and enter non-dwelling27662.9
Motor vehicle theft708161.3
Steal from motor vehicle1,161264.6
Steal from retail store1,969448.7
Other stealing offences1,496340.9
Malicious damage to property2,451558.5

Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, July 2025 - June 2026, accessed 11 October 2026.

Is Doonside - Woodcroft safe? Here's what police recorded

Police recorded 1,123 criminal incidents in Doonside - Woodcroft in Jan-Dec 2025 (NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3). NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research publishes rates per 100,000 people for Blacktown council area one offence at a time, not as a single total (July 2025 - June 2026); they are listed on this page. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

How much crime is recorded in Doonside - Woodcroft?

1,123 incidents in Jan-Dec 2025, against 1,252 the year before. The largest offence categories were Theft (225), Assault (195), Against justice procedures (169). These are raw counts as published, not adjusted for population. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe.

Police-recorded incident counts (Calendar years; latest = Jan-Dec 2025). Raw counts, not a rate, and not a judgement about the suburb. Counts are often higher where many people visit (shopping centres, stations, nightlife), not only where many people live. SuburbRadar does not rate suburbs as safe or unsafe. Source: NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3. More on crime & safety →

© State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice). Suburb totals are added up from published figures.

Risks

3 of the 4 planning and hazard records we hold show something in this area: bushfire, heritage controls and traffic noise. 3 more are not published for NSW - treat them as not checked.

Bushfire

Designated Bush Fire Prone Land

Present in this area

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

Present in this area

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Great Western Highway

Each line is the extent of an official record across the whole Doonside - Woodcroft area - not a risk rating, and a specific address may or may not be affected. Not financial or insurance advice.

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All 9 checks and what each one means

Flooding

Not published

New South Wales publishes flood planning maps council by council, with no free statewide layer we can republish - check the local council's flood planning map for this area.

Bushfire

Designated Bush Fire Prone Land

Present in this area

Part of this area is mapped as Bush Fire Prone Land by the NSW Rural Fire Service. This designation is drawn broadly around vegetation across most of NSW, so read it as "check the property", not as a measure of how exposed the area is.

Heritage controls

In an official overlay

Present in this area

Part of this area sits inside the heritage layer in the local environmental plan, so changes to buildings there - extensions, demolition, sometimes even paint colours - need planning approval. It applies property by property: most homes in an area with an overlay are not in it, and being in one is a protection as much as a restriction. Almost every NSW area contains some heritage-listed land, so read this as "check the address", not as something that sets this area apart.

Traffic noise

Freeway or highway present

Great Western Highway

1 named road through this area carries OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 6 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.

Aircraft noise

Not mapped

New South Wales maps aircraft-noise contours only where a council or precinct plan writes them in - four councils and the Western Sydney Airport precinct do. Sydney Airport's contours are published federally in its master plan and are not in the state layer, so read this as "nothing mapped here", not as a quiet area.

Land contamination checks

Not mapped

New South Wales records contaminated land in the EPA's searchable register of notified sites rather than in a planning-scheme map layer, so we have no overlay to show for this area. Search the NSW EPA contaminated land record for a specific address - nothing mapped here means we have not checked it, not that the land is clear.

Acid sulfate soils

None mapped

New South Wales classifies acid sulfate soils in the planning instruments of its coastal and estuarine councils only, and none is mapped in this area. These soils form in low-lying coastal sediments, so away from the coast and the estuaries there is nothing to map - read this as outside the mapped zone rather than as a soil test.

Recorded crime

Official counts published

1,123 incidents

Police-recorded criminal incidents in Calendar years; latest = Jan-Dec 2025, down 10% on the prior year. A count, not a rate - busier areas with more shops, stations and visitors record more incidents than quiet ones of the same size. Full breakdown ↑

Social housing

Census figure

13.2% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 0.8% from a community housing provider

Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle NSW area is 1.6% public and 0.7% community, across 624 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.

About this data

Every line is an official published record for the Doonside - Woodcroft area - we don't rate, score or rank any of them. Where a line is missing, treat it as not checked rather than clear. What each line covers and does not →

Source: NSW Rural Fire Service Bush Fire Prone Land, © State Government of NSW and NSW Rural Fire Service · NSW Planning EPI Heritage, Airport Noise + Acid Sulfate Soils, © State of New South Wales, Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure - CC BY 4.0 · NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR), released 2026 Q3 · ABS Census 2021 (G37 tenure and landlord type) · © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) - road classification

Nearby suburbs

The six closest profiled areas in New South Wales, by distance between area centres.

Doonside - Woodcroft · 3 gazetted suburbs

The suburbs in this area

Live

Everything else on this page is published for Doonside - Woodcroft as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 3 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of those suburbs on its own.

Gazetted suburbs inside Doonside - Woodcroft, with each suburb's own published figures.
Suburb Residents
Census 2021
Schools Median
house price
Doonside 13,614 5 $1.1M
Woodcroft 6,597 1 $1.1M
Bungarribee 3,177 0 $1.1M

Each row is that suburb's own published figure - nothing here is the wider area's number divided up. Resident counts are the Census 2021 usual-resident count for the gazetted suburb, so they will not add up to the population at the top of this page, which is the ABS's later June 2025 estimate for the whole statistical area: a different measure on a different date. Schools are ACARA-registered schools whose published address falls inside the suburb boundary, which is not the same as the school your address is zoned to. Median house prices in New South Wales are published by postcode, not by suburb (marked *), so suburbs sharing a postcode show the same figure - it describes the postcode, not the individual suburb. Every other figure on this page - crime & safety, overlays, commute, amenities, projections, the Family-Fit score - is published for the whole statistical area and cannot be separated by suburb.

Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, General Community Profile for Suburbs and Localities; ABS ASGS Edition 3 suburb boundaries; ACARA School Location 2025; NSW Department of Communities and Justice median house sale prices (by postcode). © State of New South Wales (Department of Communities and Justice), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (copyright notice).

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