Read your own suburb →Opening a dental practice in Kaleen?
Contested — 43+ practices for 123,104 people within 5 km.
Kaleen has 1.3× the dental practices per head of Australia as a whole: 3.49+ per 10,000 people against 2.7 nationally, in a population that has grown 5.9% since 2019.
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43 or more dentists share a 5 km circle around Kaleen, and 14 of them have passed a hundred reviews. This is a mature field. About 123,000 people live inside the circle, up 5.9% since 2019, which works out at 3.49 practices per 10,000 against 2.7 nationally: more per head than Australia as a whole. What is not here is a practice without a website: every listed dentist is marketing.
- 43+Practices in range5 km circle
- 123,104People in rangeABS 2025
- 3.49+Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.7
- +5.9%Population since 2019+0.7% last year
- 34.8Median age
Who is already there
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Kaleen Family Dental Surgery4.9 from 261 reviews · kaleenfamilydental.com.au · 1.3 km
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Dickson Park Dental Surgery - Cosmetic & Emergency Dentistry in Canberra4.9 from 136 reviews · dicksondentist.com.au · 3.8 km
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Franklin Bright Smiles (Canberra)5.0 from 1,598 reviews · franklinbrightsmiles.com.au · 4.3 km
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Maven Dental Belconnen4.7 from 67 reviews · mavendental.com.au · 4.6 km
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O'Connor Dental Surgery4.8 from 129 reviews · oconnordentalsurgery.com.au · 4.5 km
Where patients come from
- 17 schools inside the circle. Families choose a dentist near the school run. Largest: Burgmann Anglican School Valley Campus, St. Michael's Primary School, O'Connor Cooperative School.
- 17 pharmacies inside the circle. The other health stop families already make in the suburb. Largest: Chemist Warehouse Gungahlin Marketplace, Chemist Warehouse Belconnen Markets - Ibbott Lane, Capital Chemist O'Connor.
What this means if you are opening here
There is no obvious opening. The field is uniformly active and the population is served at about the national rate; a new practice here differentiates on what it does, not on where it is.
The headwind: 29 practices are already marketing properly, so search visibility has to be bought or earned slowly; 3 are chain-backed, which means a corporate marketing budget rather than an owner's; there are already more practices per head than the national average.
The number to plan against: Kaleen Family Dental Surgery has 261 reviews at 4.9. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 3,300 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 1,550 dental patients a year.
All the numbers for Kaleen
| People in range | 123,104ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +5.9% over 6 years+0.7% in the last year |
| Dental practices per 10,000 people | 3.49+Australia: 2.7 |
| People who see a dentist in a year | about 66,500roughly 1,550 per practice; about 2,000 nationally |
| Median age | 34.8 |
| Median household income | $2,378 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 30.4%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 34.1%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 6.8%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 8.7%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 3.5%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 2.7%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 1.2%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 10.4%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 0 |
| Practices marketing properly | 29a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 63 |
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.
- Dental Board of Australia registrant data (about 18,500 dentists) and IBISWorld Dental Services business counts. Dental practices per 10,000, derived: registered dentists over an assumed 2.5 dentists per location. IBISWorld's 20,900 'businesses' include contractors and sole traders and overstate locations.
- 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.