Practice Vantage · by Practice Fitouts · read on 11 September 2026

Physiotherapy in Dubbo, NSW: how crowded is the catchment?

How hard this catchment is to enter: Open

Little organised marketing. A well-run practice would stand out quickly. 31,483 people live in range, up 6.4% since 2019: 1.59 practices per 10,000, under the national ratio of practices to people.

Precision Health Care - Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation, 11 reviewsActivate Physiotherapy Centre, 7 reviewsPhysio Wellness Dubbo, 1 reviewsPaula O'Leary Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Centre, 8 reviewsWestern Exercise Physiology, 5 reviews 1 km

Each dot is a practice Google lists inside the circle; darker means a stronger rival, a hollow dot has no website, size is review count.

Who lives here
People in range31,483ABS ERP 2025
Population change+6.4% over 6 years
Physiotherapy practices per 10,000 people1.59Australia: 2.2
People who see a physio in a yearabout 5,400roughly 1,080 per practice; about 770 nationally
Share aged 25 to 6450.4%Australia: 52%
Median age34.8
Speak a language other than English at home10.5%Australia: 22.3%
Arthritis9.6%Australia: 8.46%
Asthma10.6%Australia: 8.13%
Diabetes5.3%Australia: 4.72%
Heart disease4.4%Australia: 3.93%
Lung condition2.1%Australia: 1.74%
Mental health condition10%Australia: 8.78%

Who is already there

Precision Health Care - Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation4.6 from 11 reviews · #1 on the mapprecisionhc.com.au
Activate Physiotherapy Centre5.0 from 7 reviews · #2 on the mapactivatecentre.com.au
Paula O'Leary Physiotherapy and Sports Injury Centre4.4 from 8 reviews · #4 on the mappaulaolearyphysio.com.au
Western Exercise Physiology5.0 from 5 reviews · #5 on the mapwesternexercisephysiology.com.au
Physio Wellness Dubbo5.0 from 1 reviews · #3 on the mapno website
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Where the numbers come from

  1. Google Places API, text search. The practice census, ratings, review counts, websites. Capped at 20 per search; dense circles are searched in tiles.
  2. ABS Regional population (estimated resident population by SA2), 2019 to 2025. People in range, population growth.
  3. ABS Census of Population and Housing 2021, tables G01 (age, language, birthplace), G02 (medians) and G19 (long-term health conditions), by SA2. Age profile, language, income, health conditions. National comparisons are the Australia row of the same tables.
  4. ABS Australian Statistical Geography Standard 2021 (SA1 and SA2 boundaries). Which areas fall inside the circle; SA1s hold about 400 people each, which is how partial areas are weighted.
  5. IBISWorld, Physiotherapy Services in Australia: 9,963 businesses (2026). Physiotherapy practices per 10,000, derived: about 60% of counted businesses are assumed to be a public practice location rather than a sole trader or mobile service.
  6. Australian Physiotherapy Association workforce reporting, about 23 million physiotherapy appointments a year. Annual use rate for physiotherapy, derived: 23 million appointments at about five per patient over 27.2 million people.

Practice listings, ratings and review counts are Powered by Google. Benchmarks marked derived or estimated are indicative planning figures, not survey results. Google lists at most twenty places per search; dense catchments are searched in tiles and the count is a floor.