Guide to living in Leppington, NSW

Leppington is a rapidly growing suburb in the south-west of Sydney. It’s growing for good reasons! With great access to road and train transport and a community-based lifestyle, Leppington is an ideal suburb to consider for your new home. 

Let’s find out more about Leppington, including its history and current lifestyle and property market. We hope this suburb profile of Leppington will help you consider whether it might be ideal as the location of your new home. 

Where is Leppington?

Leppington is located in south-west Sydney, sitting between the Hume Highway (M31) and the Northern Road (A9). The roughly triangular suburb, which uses the postcode 2179, is mainly in the Camden Council Local Government Area (LGA), though the northwest part is within the City of Liverpool zone.

Leppington has many strong points, including its access to transport. Leppington has good access via road to central Sydney as well as to Wollongong and the South Coast. Public transport travel is a breeze thanks to the Leppington Train Station.

Leppington is also ideally located for residents to take advantage of work and travel opportunities after the opening of the Western Sydney Airport (and the future surrounding Aerotropolis), which is around a 25 minute drive away.

A brief history of Leppington

The earliest house built in the area was constructed around 1810 and the suburb is named after an 1800s property called Leppington Park.

The first school was built in 1923, followed by the first post-office the following year. 

Leppington was identified in 2004 as an important part of the NSW Government’s South West Growth Area corridor and the train station opened in 2015. New development in Leppington is all part of the planning for providing quality housing for Australia’s growing population.

Who has their home in Leppington?

As a major part of NSW’s South West Growth Area, Leppington has changed over the past 15 years from a peri-urban area with large blocks to a vibrant suburb, meaning a rise in the demographic of young families. 

This growth has seen the population rise from nearly 2,500 residents back in 2011 to nearly 4 times that number as at the census in 2021. 

The number of homes has similarly risen from just 850 in 2011 to over 3,000 in 2021, with more being built even while you read this Leppington suburb profile! These new residents will enjoy the infrastructure that’s been built (with more coming soon) to support their new lives, including the Leppington Train Station, the Leppington Village Shopping Centre and the future Leppington Town Centre.

What's the property market like in Leppington? 

The property market in Leppington is made up mainly of 3, 4 and 5-bedroom homes. There is no market for units in Leppington (though there are some nearby in places like Edmondson Park). Blocks of land are also available for sale in Leppington.

The median price for a house in Leppington is $1,140,000 (according to realestate.com.au), with prices remaining relatively affordable in comparison to some other locations. 

Of course, a major element of the Leppington property market is new developments. So, understanding the property market in Leppington is about getting to know the different developments happening and ensuring you are speaking with reliable builders with a strong history in new development builds.

We’d love to introduce you to Tegel Estate, Rawson Homes’ newest development in Leppington. Tegel Estate is an exciting development in Leppington that includes the special enclave of Tegel Park. It’s near current and future school sites, the Leppington Village Shopping Centre and Leppington Train Station.

An artist's impression of Tegel Estate. Our Stage Three release brings together a selection of home and land packages, each offering a choice of home designs that have been carefully curated to harmonise with the local landscape.

See below for some specific home designs that might just be ideal for your move to Leppington. But, let’s first look at schools, shopping, transport and leisure options that await those choosing to make Leppington home.

Schools in and near Tegel Estate, Leppington

If school-aged kids feature in your family, you have plenty of choice for quality education in and near Leppington. 

Leppington Public School is just 2 kilometres away, conveniently, just past the Leppington Village Shopping Centre. Plans are in place for new classrooms, a new hall, canteen and COLA (that’s a covered outdoor learning area). Excitingly for families with young children, there are also plans for a public preschool co-located with the public school. 

Announcements about a public high school were made recently, though timelines are not yet certain. Once built, Leppington High School will be located right next door to the primary school, making drop-offs super easy!

Then, there’s Leppington Anglican College, which covers pre-Kindergarten to Year 12. And, for those seeking Islamic-based education, Unity Grammar school is just across the way in nearby Austral.

There are, of course, also preschool and childcare options available. And, for those at the tertiary end of the education spectrum, Western Sydney University and the Liverpool Campus of the University of Wollongong are both in commuting distance.  

Transport for Leppington

Tegel Estate is located in the ideal corner of Leppington for transport. Your new home would be around 50 kilometres south-west of Sydney’s CBD, which can be accessed by car via the nearby M5 motorway. Of course, public transport might be even easier as you’re minutes away from the Leppington Train Station.

With so many other places nearby, you might find yourself not needing to travel to central Sydney very often. Liverpool is much closer and, for top quality shopping and eating, Edmondson’s Ed.Square is around a 15-minute drive. 

Plenty of people will be envious of your location in Leppington once the Western Sydney Airport opens in 2026 and then as the surrounding Aerotropolis is gradually developed. Whether for travel or work reasons, this 20-ish kilometre trip will be smooth given you’ll be travelling against the traffic through sparsely populated areas. 

Leppington is well situated for trips to Canberra and the South Coast, with Wollongong just over an hour’s drive away.

Eating and shopping in and near Leppington

Just 1.4 kilometres away, Leppington Village shopping centre will be your truly local go-to for shopping and dining. There’s nothing small about these village shops though. The newly opened Woolworths offers direct-to-boot pick-up and there are over 30 speciality stores, cafes and restaurants. There’s even a playground right outside! 

And there are grand plans for development of the Leppington Town Centre, focussed on the train station area. This precinct won’t be just about shopping and dining, with town squares, sports fields and apartment blocks also on the agenda. 

If you feel the need to head out of Leppington, options nearby include Ed.Square (in Edmondson Park) and Liverpool.

Leisure near Leppington

In addition to the soon-to-be-developed Leppington Town Centre, the Oran Park Leisure Centre (expected to open in late 2024) will soon be a multipurpose community facility for book- and sports-lovers alike! Not only will the library be there but an Olympic swimming pool and other water and sports facilities. 

Leppington is also close to the nature-filled walking and cycling paths of the Western Sydney Parklands. And, you’ll find nearby clubs for whichever sport you enjoy most. 

An artist's impression of Tegel Park, an exclusive enclave within Tegel Estate with its own private heritage park.

 

Let’s get down to floor plans for your new home in Leppington!

We have taken out the hard work of decisions by creating three, four and five bedroom home designs and floor plans for you to choose between. All the choices have been carefully curated to suit the land size and position, as well as provide options to suit your lifestyle and budget. 

Our ‘More Choice Made Easy’ approach allows you to choose both your ideal home design and your preferred facade, then add further personalisation through your selection from available external and internal colour schemes. You have control over your choices while we make the process simple and easy, all while maintaining the quality you expect. 

You can see all the lots available on our Tegel Estate, Leppington listings page. But, in case you can’t wait, here are overviews of just two of the ten options:

1. The Leona 25 is a four-bedroom, double-storey home complete with double garage and multiple indoor and outdoor living areas. The upstairs sleeping zone is complemented by a rumpus retreat and two bathrooms. Downstairs, there's an enclosed lounge in addition to the open-plan living-dining-kitchen zone and an undercover alfresco area. You can view the floorplan in detail here.

The Leona 25 with Contemporary Enhanced façade in the Cool Light colour scheme.

 

2. The Huntley 28 is the largest home on offer in this stage of Tegel Estate’s development. With four bedrooms and a rumpus room upstairs, and two living areas plus a home-office downstairs, you’ll have room to move and the flexibility to make this floorplan work perfectly for your family. You can view the floorplan in detail here.

The Huntley 28 in Contemporary Enhanced façade in the Warm Light colour scheme.

 

The choice doesn’t end with the floorplan. With all Rawson designs within Tegel Estate, you can choose from two or three different facades, as well as a range of external and internal colour schemes. 

Whichever home design is best for you, your family and lifestyle, we are excited to be part of the growth and development of Leppington and would love to help you consider whether this is an ideal place for you to call home.

Visit our Leppington Sales Centre (located at 3 Cato Circuit). Or, contact us to start your journey to calling Leppington home.