Areas
Where I work
Roughly 20km around Penrith. The suburbs below aren't interchangeable — the housing stock and what's in the ground changes a lot across this area, so each page says what actually goes wrong there.
Penrith
2750 · Based hereMixed older cottages and newer unit blocks
Jamisontown
2750 · 5 min1970s–80s brick veneer near the Nepean
South Penrith
2750 · 7 min1960s–70s homes with mature street trees
Glenmore Park
2745 · 10 min1990s–2000s estate housing
Emu Plains
2750 · 8 minRiverside, older cottages with newer infill
Leonay
2750 · 10 min1960s–70s homes on sloping blocks
Kingswood
2747 · 6 min1950s–70s fibro and brick
Cambridge Park
2747 · 8 min1960s housing, largely original
Werrington
2747 · 10 min1970s homes, high rental share
Claremont Meadows
2747 · 12 min1990s estate, modern pipework
St Marys
2760 · 14 minPost-war housing and an older commercial strip
Oxley Park
2760 · 15 minPost-war cottages, much of it original
Colyton
2760 · 17 min1950s–60s homes with established gardens
St Clair
2759 · 18 min1980s estate housing
Erskine Park
2759 · 20 min1980s–90s homes beside an industrial estate
Cranebrook
2749 · 10 min1980s housing on larger blocks
Castlereagh
2749 · 15 minSemi-rural acreage, tank and septic
Londonderry
2753 · 18 minRural acreage, bore and tank supply
Llandilo
2747 · 15 minAcreage blocks with long service runs
Mulgoa
2745 · 18 minSemi-rural, older homesteads on acreage