Read your own suburb →Opening a dental practice in Wetherill Park?
Contested — 64+ practices for 708,648 people within 10 km. Read 14 September 2026.
There are 64 or more dentists within 10 km of Wetherill Park, and most of them are working at it: 52 have a website and a real review base, and 2 are part of a chain. About 709,000 people live in range, up 3.8% since 2019; the practice count is capped by Google's search, so the true ratio is higher than the 0.9 per 10,000 shown. 64.6% of households speak a language other than English at home, nearly 2.9 times the national share; a practitioner who speaks the local languages has an edge no listing here mentions. 5 of the 64 listed practices have no website at all.
- 64+Practices in range10 km circle
- 708,648People in rangeABS 2025
- 0.9+Per 10,000 peopleAustralia 2.7
- +3.8%Population since 2019+0.8% last year
- 36.1Median age
Who is already there
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Lily's Dental4.9 from 741 reviews · lilysdental.com.au · 8.3 km
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Super Smiles Dental5.0 from 302 reviews · supersmilesdental.com.au · 9.4 km
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Bloom Dental Westmead4.8 from 315 reviews · bloomdentalcare.com.au · 9.5 km
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Blacktown Dental Surgery4.7 from 206 reviews · allsmilebds.com.au · 8.7 km
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Dentist Near Me - Toongabbie4.9 from 1,119 reviews · dentistnearme.clinic · 9.3 km
Where patients come from
- 14 schools inside the circle. Families choose a dentist near the school run. Largest: Marsden Road Public School, Greystanes Public School, Blaxcell Street Public School.
- 14 pharmacies inside the circle. The other health stop families already make in the suburb. Largest: Boulevarde Pharmacy, Walters Road Pharmacy, Darcy Road Pharmacy.
What this means if you are opening here
The opening: 5 practices have no website, which means they are invisible to anyone searching outside Google Maps.
The headwind: 52 practices are already marketing properly, so search visibility has to be bought or earned slowly; 2 are chain-backed, which means a corporate marketing budget rather than an owner's; Google's search is capped, so the count of 64 is a floor and the field is denser than it reads.
The number to plan against: Lily's Dental has 741 reviews at 4.9. At a typical one review per twelve patient visits, matching that takes roughly 9,300 visits. That is the size of the head start, in a catchment where each practice sees about 5,980 dental patients a year.
All the numbers for Wetherill Park
| People in range | 708,648ABS estimated resident population 2025 |
|---|---|
| Population change | +3.8% over 6 years+0.8% in the last year |
| Dental practices per 10,000 people | 0.9+Australia: 2.7 |
| People who see a dentist in a year | about 383,000roughly 5,980 per practice; about 2,000 nationally |
| Median age | 36.1 |
| Median household income | $1,669 a weekCensus 2021 |
| Speak a language other than English at home | 64.6%Australia: 22.3% |
| Born overseas | 53.1%Australia: 27.7% |
| Arthritis | 6.5%Australia: 8.5% |
| Asthma | 5.9%Australia: 8.1% |
| Diabetes | 6.2%Australia: 4.7% |
| Heart disease | 3.3%Australia: 3.9% |
| Lung condition | 1.1%Australia: 1.7% |
| Mental health condition | 5.2%Australia: 8.8% |
| Practices with no website | 5 |
| Practices marketing properly | 52a website plus 25 or more reviews |
| Median reviews per practice | 110 |
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.