Read your own suburb →Opening a GP practice in Gregory Hills?
Competitive — 12 practices for 132,069 people within 5 km. Read 14 September 2026.
The GP field around Gregory Hills is active without being closed: 12 practices, 7 of them with a website and a review base to match. About 132,000 people live inside the circle, growing quickly, up 29.3% since 2019, which works out at 0.91 practices per 10,000 against 2.6 nationally: fewer per head than Australia as a whole. 2 of the 12 listed practices have no website at all.
- 12Practices in range5 km circle
- 132,069People in rangeABS 2025
- 0.91Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.6
- +29.3%Population since 2019+2.7% last year
- 33.4Median age
Who is already there
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Myhealth Oran Park Medical Centre4.4 from 677 reviews · myhealth.net.au · 4.5 km
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Our Medical2.4 from 851 reviews · ourmedical.com.au · 0.2 km
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Optimal Health Medical Centre Gregory Hills4.1 from 373 reviews · optimalhealthmedicalcentre.com.au · 1.3 km
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NARELLAN CENTRAL MEDICAL CENTRE - 100% Bulk Billing4.0 from 219 reviews · narellancentralmedicalcentre.com.au · 3.3 km
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St Luke The Physician Medical Centre3.9 from 144 reviews · healthengine.com.au · 4.1 km
Where patients come from
- 13 pharmacies inside the circle. Every script is a visit; a pharmacy next door is a queue. Largest: Medicines R Us Our Medical Chemist - Gregory Hills, Priceline Pharmacy Oran Park, Cincotta Discount Chemist Gregory Hills.
- 15 child care centres inside the circle. Young families are the highest-frequency patients a GP has. Largest: Bambino's Kindergarten Harrington Park North, Young Academics Early Learning Centre - Smeaton Grange, Bambino's Kindergarten Harrington Park.
What this means if you are opening here
The opening: 2 practices have no website, which means they are invisible to anyone searching outside Google Maps; the catchment has fewer GP practices per head than Australia as a whole, so it could carry more; the population has grown 29.3% in 6 years, and growth arrives before the practices to serve it do.
The headwinds are ordinary: nothing in the population or the field argues against GP here.
The number to plan against: Myhealth Oran Park Medical Centre has 677 reviews at 4.4. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 8,500 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 9,130 GP patients a year.
All the numbers for Gregory Hills
| People in range | 132,069ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +29.3% over 6 years+2.7% in the last year |
| General practice practices per 10,000 people | 0.91Australia: 2.6 |
| People who see a GP in a year | about 110,000roughly 9,130 per practice; about 3,190 nationally |
| Median age | 33.4 |
| Median household income | $2,238 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 28.3%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 27.7%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 6.7%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 8.1%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 4.8%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 2.8%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 1.1%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 7.2%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 2 |
| Practices marketing properly | 7a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 55 |
Where the numbers come from
- Google Places API, text search. The practice census, ratings, review counts, websites. Capped at 20 per search; dense circles are searched in tiles.
- Google Places API, result order for the discipline search from the suburb centre. Which practices Google lists first for this search. Google's relevance order from the centre of the circle, not a live local pack, which depends on where the searcher stands.
- ABS Regional population (estimated resident population by SA2), 2019 to 2025. People in range, population growth.
- 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.
- 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.
- RACGP General Practice: Health of the Nation 2024, about 7,135 accredited general practices. GP practices per 10,000 (7,135 over 27.2 million).
- ABS Patient Experiences, 2024-25: 83.4% saw a GP, 53.9% saw a dental professional in the last 12 months. Annual use rates for GP and dental.
Practice listings, ratings and review counts are Powered by Google and are at most 30 days old. 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.