Kemps Creek vs Austral

Austral is the younger of the two, with a median age of 31 against 44 in Kemps Creek. In both, most households own their home and the large majority of homes are detached houses. In Kemps Creek, about half of households are couple families. In Austral, most households are couple families. Houses cost more in Kemps Creek: a median of $5.25 million, against $1.2 million in Austral, though rent is higher in Austral. On these figures, Kemps Creek tends to suit older residents, while Austral suits young adults, families with children, and couples.

Which one suits you?

There is no overall winner — the suburb that suits a family with school-age kids is routinely the wrong one for someone commuting into the city. So each of these answers its own question, against a checklist you can see, using the same figures in the tables below.

Families with school-age kids

They split

one each way, out of the 6 things we measure here

  • Kemps Creek has more schools inside the suburb (7 vs 5)
  • Austral has more childcare (13 vs 2)

Weighs schools, house stock, crime, parks, childcare, and who already lives there.

First-home buyers

Austral

ahead on 2 of the 3 things we measure here

  • has cheaper land ($752,500 vs $4,500,000)
  • has cheaper houses ($1,199,000 vs $5,250,000)

Weighs house prices, land prices, and mortgage stress.

Renters

Kemps Creek

ahead on the one thing that separates them

  • has cheaper rent ($470/wk vs $520/wk)

Weighs rent, rental stress, and how much is for rent.

Commuting to the city

Austral

ahead on the one thing that separates them

  • is more walkable (65/100 vs 8/100)

Weighs distance, drive time, rail access, and walkability.

Downsizers and retirees

Austral

ahead on 2 of the 5 things we measure here

  • is more walkable (65/100 vs 8/100)
  • has more GPs (2 vs 0)
  • But Kemps Creek has more residents already 65 and over (21% vs 10%)

Weighs smaller dwellings, who already lives there, GPs, walkability, and crime.

Investors

Austral

ahead on the one thing that separates them

  • is growing faster (126.4% vs -6.5%)

Weighs population growth.

Where they sit

Kemps Creek and Austral drawn to the same scale. Both outlines are shown together, so the map answers whether they share a border and how their areas compare.

Kemps Creek Austral
Hides rows where both suburbs match

Bars start at zero. Scores, risks and rankings are drawn against their full 0–100 range; other rows are drawn in proportion to the larger of the two.

Side by side, out of 100

Risks are inverted — shown as safety and low exposure — so a longer bar always means better.

Kemps Creek Austral
Walkability 8 / 65
Kemps Creek — Walkability: 8/100 Austral — Walkability: 65/100
Safety 11 / 15
Kemps Creek — Safety: 11/100 Austral — Safety: 15/100
Low fire risk 31 / 56
Kemps Creek — Low fire risk: 31/100 Austral — Low fire risk: 56/100

Demographics

Austral has more residents (6,847 vs 2,121); Kemps Creek skews older (44 vs 31).

Kemps Creek Austral
Population 2,121 6,847
+223% vs other
Population trend (2016 → 2021) -6.5% +126.4%
Median age 44 31
Median household income $91,156/yr $112,736/yr
+24% vs other
Median weekly rent $470/wk $520/wk
+11% vs other

Age profile

Share of residents in each band, 2021 Census.

Kemps Creek Austral
0-4 3.9% / 10.9%
Kemps Creek — 0-4: 3.9% Austral — 0-4: 10.9%
5-14 12.0% / 14.4%
Kemps Creek — 5-14: 12.0% Austral — 5-14: 14.4%
15-19 7.0% / 5.0%
Kemps Creek — 15-19: 7.0% Austral — 15-19: 5.0%
20-24 7.5% / 5.6%
Kemps Creek — 20-24: 7.5% Austral — 20-24: 5.6%
25-34 10.5% / 21.7%
Kemps Creek — 25-34: 10.5% Austral — 25-34: 21.7%
35-44 11.0% / 17.1%
Kemps Creek — 35-44: 11.0% Austral — 35-44: 17.1%
45-54 14.9% / 8.7%
Kemps Creek — 45-54: 14.9% Austral — 45-54: 8.7%
55-64 12.7% / 6.6%
Kemps Creek — 55-64: 12.7% Austral — 55-64: 6.6%
65-74 12.2% / 4.8%
Kemps Creek — 65-74: 12.2% Austral — 65-74: 4.8%
75-84 5.7% / 3.0%
Kemps Creek — 75-84: 5.7% Austral — 75-84: 3.0%
85+ 3.2% / 2.0%
Kemps Creek — 85+: 3.2% Austral — 85+: 2.0%

Bars are drawn against the largest share shown (21.7%).

Who lives together

Household composition, 2021 Census.

Kemps Creek 54.1% couple families
Kemps Creek — Couple Families: 54.1% Kemps Creek — Lone Person: 19.9% Kemps Creek — One Parent Families: 19.7% Kemps Creek — Group Household: 3.8% Kemps Creek — Other Families: 2.6%
Austral 64.6% couple families
Austral — Couple Families: 64.6% Austral — Lone Person: 16.8% Austral — One Parent Families: 15.7% Austral — Group Household: 1.5% Austral — Other Families: 1.4%
Couple Families Lone Person One Parent Families Group Household Other Families

Who owns and who rents

Occupied private dwellings by tenure, 2021 Census.

Kemps Creek 31.2% renting
Kemps Creek — Owned Outright: 48.3% Kemps Creek — Mortgage: 20.4% Kemps Creek — Renting: 31.2%
Austral 28.9% renting
Austral — Owned Outright: 17.9% Austral — Mortgage: 53.2% Austral — Renting: 28.9%
Owned outright Mortgage Renting

Qualifications

Highest non-school qualification, residents 15+, 2021 Census.

Kemps Creek Austral
Certificate III & IV 15.7% / 9.7%
Kemps Creek — Certificate III & IV: 15.7% Austral — Certificate III & IV: 9.7%
Bachelor Degree 6.9% / 13.3%
Kemps Creek — Bachelor Degree: 6.9% Austral — Bachelor Degree: 13.3%
Advanced Diploma / Diploma 6.2% / 6.5%
Kemps Creek — Advanced Diploma / Diploma: 6.2% Austral — Advanced Diploma / Diploma: 6.5%
Postgraduate Degree 1.1% / 5.9%
Kemps Creek — Postgraduate Degree: 1.1% Austral — Postgraduate Degree: 5.9%
Graduate Diploma / Certificate 0.2% / 0.8%
Kemps Creek — Graduate Diploma / Certificate: 0.2% Austral — Graduate Diploma / Certificate: 0.8%

Bars are drawn against the largest share shown (15.7%).

Where residents were born

Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents, 2021 Census. A dash means that country is not among the suburb's own eight largest.

Kemps Creek Austral
Italy 5.8% / 3.4%
Kemps Creek — Italy: 5.8% Austral — Italy: 3.4%
Iraq 2.6% / 5.6%
Kemps Creek — Iraq: 2.6% Austral — Iraq: 5.6%
Nepal — / 4.3%
Kemps Creek — Nepal: not among its largest Austral — Nepal: 4.3%
India — / 4.0%
Kemps Creek — India: not among its largest Austral — India: 4.0%
China 2.6% / —
Kemps Creek — China: 2.6% Austral — China: not among its largest
Fiji — / 2.5%
Kemps Creek — Fiji: not among its largest Austral — Fiji: 2.5%
Lebanon 2.4% / —
Kemps Creek — Lebanon: 2.4% Austral — Lebanon: not among its largest
England 1.0% / —
Kemps Creek — England: 1.0% Austral — England: not among its largest

Bars are drawn against the largest share shown (5.8%).

What people live in

Occupied private dwellings by structure, 2021 Census.

Kemps Creek 91.9% houses
Kemps Creek — Houses: 91.9% Kemps Creek — Flats / Apartments: 4.5% Kemps Creek — Townhouses: 3.5%
Austral 88.3% houses
Austral — Houses: 88.3% Austral — Flats / Apartments: 6.1% Austral — Townhouses: 5.6%
Houses Flats / Apartments Townhouses

Property market

Kemps Creek Austral
Median house price $5,250,000 $1,199,000
Median unit price —
same for both
Median land price $4,500,000 $752,500
Typical days to sell (houses) 169 days
from 7 sales
 36 days
from 261 sales

House price by bedroom count

Only bed counts both suburbs published enough sales for. Sale counts are shown because the buckets differ in depth.

Kemps Creek Austral
3 bed $6.5M / $1.01M
Kemps Creek — 3 bed: $6.5M (5 sales) Austral — 3 bed: $1.01M (33 sales)

5 vs 33 sales

4 bed $4.6M / $1.15M
Kemps Creek — 4 bed: $4.6M (6 sales) Austral — 4 bed: $1.15M (179 sales)

6 vs 179 sales

Zoning mix

Kemps Creek has more rural and farming land (48% vs 3%); Kemps Creek has more industrially zoned land (32% vs 2%).

Kemps Creek Austral
Residential 0% 53%
Rural and farming 48% 3%
Industrial 32% 2%
Environmental 14% 10%
Infrastructure and transport 2% 10%
Parks and recreation 1% 8%
Other and special use 2% 0%
Commercial 0% 1%
Planning zones cover 100% of Kemps Creek and 87% of Austral. The rest is unzoned land such as water or road reserve.
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the suburb around it. Zones as at 2026-09.

Development activity

Kemps Creek Austral
New dwellings approved 1,063
across Penrith
 2,229
across Liverpool
Approvals change year on year -78% +28%

Gross rental yield

Gross — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. From median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.

Kemps Creek Austral
Houses — 3.7%
$850/wk on $1.2M
Units —
same for both

Ranking within NSW

Kemps Creek Austral
House price Higher than 98% of NSW Higher than 43% of NSW
Income Higher than 59% of NSW Higher than 78% of NSW
Schools Higher than 37% of NSW Higher than 43% of NSW
Walkability Higher than 54% of NSW Higher than 86% of NSW
Affordability Higher than 1% of NSW Higher than 79% of NSW
EV adoption Higher than 63% of NSW Higher than 90% of NSW
NBN connectivity Higher than 76% of NSW Higher than 98% of NSW
Rental yield (houses) — Higher than 56% of NSW

Liveability

Austral is more walkable (65 vs 8); Austral scores higher overall (46 vs 28).

Kemps Creek Austral
Grade D C
Score 28/100 46/100
Socio-economic band mid-range socio-economic
decile 5/10
 advantaged area
decile 8/10

Risk profile

Kemps Creek carries more bushfire risk (69 vs 44).

Kemps Creek Austral
Bushfire Moderate
69/100
 Moderate
44/100
Crime High
89/100
 High
85/100
Flood Not mapped
no mapped data here
same for both
Coastal erosion None
0/100
same for both
Aircraft noise High
83/100
 None
0/100
Industrial facilities nearby 4
within 5 km
 0
within 5 km

Schools

Kemps Creek Austral
Inside the suburb 7 5
Rated above peers 1
same for both
Rated at peers 2 3
Rated below peers 2 1
Universities within 10 km None 1
50 Scott Street Liverpool, 9.9 km

Schools in Kemps Creek

  • Trinity Catholic Primary School Catholic · Primary above peers
  • Christadelphian Heritage College Sydney Independent · Combined at peers
  • Mamre Anglican School Independent · Combined at peers
  • Emmaus Catholic College Catholic · Secondary below peers
  • Kemps Creek Public School Government · Primary below peers
  • Aspect Western Sydney School, Kemps Creek - Emmaus Independent · Secondary · Special school

Schools in Austral

  • Al-Faisal College - Liverpool Independent · Combined above peers
  • Arrahman College Independent · Primary at peers
  • St Anthony of Padua Catholic College Catholic · Combined at peers
  • Unity Grammar College Independent · Combined at peers
  • Austral Public School Government · Primary below peers

Amenities in the suburb

Kemps Creek Austral
Supermarkets 0 1
Cafes & restaurants 3 0
Parks & reserves 2 3
Childcare 2 13
GPs 0 2
Pharmacies 0 1
Banks & Bank@Post 1
same for both
Fuel stations 4 1
Waterways 4 6

Mobility

Kemps Creek Austral
Walkability score 8/100 65/100
Distance to Sydney 53 km
+2% vs other
 52 km
Drive time (normal traffic) 52 min 49 min
Public transport score 71/100
Bus
 78/100
Bus
Peak arrivals per hour 38.0
7-9am + 5-7pm
 82.5
7-9am + 5-7pm
Median peak wait 1 min
scheduled, not actual
same for both
Electric vehicle share 0.6%
postcode 2178
 1.6%
postcode 2179
Rooftop solar per 100 dwellings 54
postcode 2178
 —
postcode 2179

How people get to work

Method of travel on census day 2021 — which fell during COVID restrictions, so working from home is inflated and every travel mode understated.

Kemps Creek Austral
Car (driver) 51.8% / 50.7%
Kemps Creek — Car (driver): 51.8% Austral — Car (driver): 50.7%
Worked from Home 37.6% / 39.9%
Kemps Creek — Worked from Home: 37.6% Austral — Worked from Home: 39.9%
Car (passenger) 3.7% / 3.3%
Kemps Creek — Car (passenger): 3.7% Austral — Car (passenger): 3.3%
Walked Only 5.6% / 1.2%
Kemps Creek — Walked Only: 5.6% Austral — Walked Only: 1.2%
Train 1.3% / 4.9%
Kemps Creek — Train: 1.3% Austral — Train: 4.9%

Bars are drawn against the largest share shown (51.8%).

Setting

Kemps Creek Austral
Elevation 45 m
above sea level, at the suburb centre
 68 m
above sea level, at the suburb centre
Distance to the ocean 35.1 km 30.8 km

NBN connectivity

Kemps Creek Austral
Connectivity score 69/100 99/100
Most common technology Fibre to the node Fibre to the premises
Full-fibre (FTTP) share 38%
817 premises
 95%
7,736 premises

Climate

Kemps Creek Austral
Annual rainfall 822 mm 931 mm
Summer max (Jan) — 28.9°C
Winter min (Jul) — 6.9°C

Air quality (annual mean)

Kemps Creek Austral
PM2.5 6.7 µg/m³
same for both
PM10 16.9 µg/m³
same for both
NO₂ 0.37 pphm
same for both

Council rates

Kemps Creek Austral
Average residential rate $1,547/yr $1,322/yr
Council Penrith Liverpool

Federal electorate

Kemps Creek Austral
Division Mcmahon Werriwa
Member Chris Bowen Anne Maree Stanley
Party Australian Labor Party
same for both

First Home Owner Grant

Kemps Creek Austral
Grant amount $10,000
same for both
Property price cap $600,000
same for both
Eligibility New
same for both

Tags

Kemps Creek

Acreage Luxury Multicultural Outer

Austral

Acreage Family Multicultural Outer Young Families

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