Read your own suburb →Opening a dental practice in Warilla?
Contested — 8 practices for 34,947 people within 3 km.
Warilla has 15% fewer dental practices per head than Australia as a whole: 2.29 per 10,000 people against 2.7 nationally, in a population that has grown 2% since 2019.
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There are 8 dentists within 3 km of Warilla, and most of them are working at it: 8 have a website and a real review base, and 1 is part of a chain. That is 2.29 practices for every 10,000 of the 34,900 people in range, fewer than the national 2.7, in a population up 2% since 2019. What is not here is a practice without a website: every listed dentist is marketing.
- 8Practices in range3 km circle
- 34,947People in rangeABS 2025
- 2.29Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.7
- +2%Population since 2019+0.8% last year
- 42.8Median age
Who is already there
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My Dental Team Shellharbour4.9 from 681 reviews · mydentalteam.com.au · 2.7 km
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Total Care Dental Surgery5.0 from 253 reviews · totalcaredentists.com.au · 1.6 km
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Shellharbour Dentists5.0 from 165 reviews · shellharbourdentist.com.au · 1.3 km
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Shellharbour City Dental4.8 from 90 reviews · shellharbourcitydental.com.au · 2.4 km
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Active Dental Care4.9 from 67 reviews · activedentalcare.com.au · 0.2 km
Where patients come from
- 19 schools inside the circle. Families choose a dentist near the school run. Largest: Growing Stars Montessori School, Illawarra Academy of Early Learning Warilla, Warilla Preschool & OCC.
- 11 pharmacies inside the circle. The other health stop families already make in the suburb. Largest: Wal's Pharmacy, Good Price Pharmacy Warehouse Shellharbour, Blooms The Chemist Warilla.
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: My Dental Team Shellharbour has 681 reviews at 4.9. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 8,500 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 2,360 dental patients a year.
All the numbers for Warilla
| People in range | 34,947ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +2% over 6 years+0.8% in the last year |
| Dental practices per 10,000 people | 2.29Australia: 2.7 |
| People who see a dentist in a year | about 18,900roughly 2,360 per practice; about 2,000 nationally |
| Median age | 42.8 |
| Median household income | $1,392 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 11.7%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 18.8%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 12.8%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 9.2%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 6.6%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 5.1%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 2.9%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 11.3%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 0 |
| Practices marketing properly | 8a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 79 |
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.