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Opening a dental practice in Penrith?

Contested — 33+ practices for 52,452 people within 3 km. Read 12 September 2026.

Penrith's dental field is as established as they come: 33 or more practices inside 3 km, 13 of them with more than a hundred reviews, 3 chain-backed. About 52,500 people live inside the circle, growing quickly, up 10.6% since 2019, which works out at 6.29 practices per 10,000 against 2.7 nationally: more per head than Australia as a whole. 3 of the 33 listed practices have no website at all.

Who is already there

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What this means if you are opening here

The opening: 3 practices have no website, which means they are invisible to anyone searching outside Google Maps; the population has grown 10.6% in 6 years, and growth arrives before the practices to serve it do.

The headwind: 19 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: Lethbridge Dental has 543 reviews at 4.9. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 6,800 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 860 dental patients a year.

All the numbers for Penrith
People in range52,452ABS estimated resident population 2025
Population change+10.6% over 6 years+1.5% in the last year
Dental practices per 10,000 people6.29+Australia: 2.7
People who see a dentist in a yearabout 28,300roughly 860 per practice; about 2,000 nationally
Median age36.3
Median household income$1,698 a weekCensus 2021
Speak a language other than English at home15.9%Australia: 22.3%
Born overseas22.4%Australia: 27.7%
Arthritis9.1%Australia: 8.5%
Asthma9.8%Australia: 8.1%
Diabetes5.6%Australia: 4.7%
Heart disease4.1%Australia: 3.9%
Lung condition2%Australia: 1.7%
Mental health condition11.3%Australia: 8.8%
Practices with no website3
Practices marketing properly19a website plus 25 or more reviews
Median reviews per practice49

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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.