Read your own suburb →Opening a dental practice in Riverwood?
Contested — 9 practices for 128,369 people within 3 km.
Riverwood has 74% fewer dental practices per head than Australia as a whole: 0.7 per 10,000 people against 2.7 nationally, in a population that has grown 2.3% since 2019.
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Riverwood's dental field is as established as they come: 9 practices inside 3 km, 5 of them with more than a hundred reviews, 1 chain-backed. That is 0.7 practices for every 10,000 of the 128,000 people in range, fewer than the national 2.7, in a population up 2.3% since 2019. 61% of households speak a language other than English at home, nearly 2.7 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.
- 9Practices in range3 km circle
- 128,369People in rangeABS 2025
- 0.7Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.7
- +2.3%Population since 2019+0.9% last year
- 37.4Median age
Who is already there
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Roselands Dental Practice4.8 from 365 reviews · roselandsdental.com.au · 1.9 km
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Smile Collective Dental Couture4.9 from 277 reviews · smilecollective.com.au · 1.9 km
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Padstow Dental5.0 from 173 reviews · padstow.dental · 2.0 km
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Comfort Dental Riverwood5.0 from 89 reviews · comfortdentalriverwood.com.au · 0.9 km
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Maven Dental Punchbowl4.1 from 85 reviews · mavendental.com.au · 2.2 km
Where patients come from
- 13 schools inside the circle. Families choose a dentist near the school run. Largest: Beverly Hills North Public School, Punchbowl Public School, Penshurst West Public School.
- 14 pharmacies inside the circle. The other health stop families already make in the suburb. Largest: Chemist Warehouse Punchbowl - Broadway Plaza, My Compounding Pharmacy, Punchbowl Pharmacy Warehouse.
What this means if you are opening here
The opening: the catchment has fewer dental practices per head than Australia as a whole, so it could carry more.
The headwind: 8 practices are already marketing properly, so search visibility has to be bought or earned slowly; 1 is chain-backed, which means a corporate marketing budget rather than an owner's.
The number to plan against: Roselands Dental Practice has 365 reviews at 4.8. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 4,600 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 7,700 dental patients a year.
All the numbers for Riverwood
| People in range | 128,369ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +2.3% over 6 years+0.9% in the last year |
| Dental practices per 10,000 people | 0.7Australia: 2.7 |
| People who see a dentist in a year | about 69,300roughly 7,700 per practice; about 2,000 nationally |
| Median age | 37.4 |
| Median household income | $1,617 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 61%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 47.5%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 6.6%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 5.8%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 5.6%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 3.5%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 1.2%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 5.3%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 0 |
| Practices marketing properly | 8a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 173 |
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.