Read your own suburb →Opening a dental practice in Sans Souci?
Contested — 10 practices for 71,044 people within 3 km. Read 12 September 2026.
Sans Souci's dental field is as established as they come: 10 practices inside 3 km, 4 of them with more than a hundred reviews, 1 chain-backed. That is 1.41 practices for every 10,000 of the 71,000 people in range, fewer than the national 2.7, in a population up 5% since 2019. 53.2% of households speak a language other than English at home, nearly 2.4 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.
- 10Practices in range3 km circle
- 71,044People in rangeABS 2025
- 1.41Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.7
- +5%Population since 2019+1.4% last year
- 40.2Median age
Who is already there
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Signature Smile Dental | Sans Souci Dental Clinic5.0 from 27 reviews · signaturesmiledental.com.au · 0.5 km
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St Mark Dental4.9 from 550 reviews · stmarkdentalandmedical.com · 2.2 km
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just SMILE & NOVA Sydney South5.0 from 413 reviews · justsmile.com.au · 1.6 km
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MAX Dental Clinic4.9 from 34 reviews · maxdentalclinic.com.au · 1.4 km
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Ayar Dental Clinic Ramsgate4.8 from 298 reviews · ayardental.com.au · 1.4 km
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: 7 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: Signature Smile Dental | Sans Souci Dental Clinic has 27 reviews at 5.0. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 300 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 3,840 dental patients a year.
All the numbers for Sans Souci
| People in range | 71,044ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +5% over 6 years+1.4% in the last year |
| Dental practices per 10,000 people | 1.41Australia: 2.7 |
| People who see a dentist in a year | about 38,400roughly 3,840 per practice; about 2,000 nationally |
| Median age | 40.2 |
| Median household income | $1,925 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 53.2%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 45.4%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 7%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 5.2%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 4.5%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 4%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 1.1%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 5.1%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 0 |
| Practices marketing properly | 7a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 62 |
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.
- DataForSEO, Google Maps and organic results. Live search positions, when configured.
- 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.