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Opening a dental practice in Parramatta?

Contested — 40+ practices for 155,362 people within 3 km. Read 12 September 2026.

There are 40 or more dentists within 3 km of Parramatta, and most of them are working at it: 35 have a website and a real review base, and 5 are part of a chain. The 155,000 or so people inside the circle (growing quickly, up 7.2% since 2019) are served at about the national rate: 2.57 practices per 10,000 against 2.7. 67.6% of households speak a language other than English at home, nearly 3 times the national share; a practitioner who speaks the local languages has an edge no listing here mentions. What is not here is a practice without a website: every listed dentist is marketing.

Who is already there

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What this means if you are opening here

The opening: the population has grown 7.2% in 6 years, and growth arrives before the practices to serve it do.

The headwind: 35 practices are already marketing properly, so search visibility has to be bought or earned slowly; 5 are chain-backed, which means a corporate marketing budget rather than an owner's; Google's search is capped, so the count of 40 is a floor and the field is denser than it reads.

The number to plan against: Royal Dental Care Parramatta has 908 reviews at 4.8. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 11,400 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 2,100 dental patients a year.

All the numbers for Parramatta
People in range155,362ABS estimated resident population 2025
Population change+7.2% over 6 years+1.5% in the last year
Dental practices per 10,000 people2.57+Australia: 2.7
People who see a dentist in a yearabout 83,900roughly 2,100 per practice; about 2,000 nationally
Median age33.4
Median household income$1,867 a weekCensus 2021
Speak a language other than English at home67.6%Australia: 22.3%
Born overseas62%Australia: 27.7%
Arthritis4.5%Australia: 8.5%
Asthma4.8%Australia: 8.1%
Diabetes4.5%Australia: 4.7%
Heart disease2.5%Australia: 3.9%
Lung condition0.8%Australia: 1.7%
Mental health condition4.9%Australia: 8.8%
Practices with no website0
Practices marketing properly35a website plus 25 or more reviews
Median reviews per practice140

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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. DataForSEO, Google Maps and organic results. Live search positions, when configured.
  3. ABS Regional population (estimated resident population by SA2), 2019 to 2025. People in range, population growth.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.