Newtown Review

Newtown is a suburb in Sydney's inner west, located 4km south-west of the Sydney CBD. The suburb offers public transport schools, child care and major shopping centres at doorstep. Newtown and its surrounding areas have the highest concentration of independent theatres and live performance spaces in Sydney. It is a little inner city suburb with a wide range of vintage shops, coffee shops and restaurants on King street.

Newtown is a vibrant suburb offering lots of facilities:

• Very close to CBD

• Safe suburb

• Good transport links

• Good schools

• Most amenities are in walking distance

• Multicultural suburb

• Location is good

• Lots of cafes and restaurants

• Good community spirit

• Convenient for young generation, professionals and families

• Very less options for shopping

• Parking issue

• Lack of greenery

Newtown is bordered on the north by Camperdown and Darlington, on the east by Erskineville and Alexandria, on the south by St Peters and Marrickville and on the west by Enmore and Stanmore.

• Newtown railway station is on the Inner West & Leppington Line of the Sydney Trains network.

• Regular bus services are available in the suburb to travel around the surrounding 

suburbs.

• Newtown Central is the main shopping mall in the suburb, located next door to the 

Newtown Rail Station.

• Marrickville Metro Shopping Centre is a bustling shopping complex located in neighboring suburb of Marrickville featuring familiar brand-name stores & a variety of eateries.

• Multiple small supermarkets and groceries are also available in the suburb.

Good schools in the area include:

• Newtown North Public School, 50 Carillon Ave, Newtown

• Newtown Public School, 1 Norfolk St, Newtown

• Camdenville Public School, Laura St, Newtown

• The Athena School/Athena Montessori, 28 Oxford St, Newtown

Good daycares in the suburb include:

• Active Kids Newtown, 159 Bedford St, Newtown

• Boundary Lane Children’s Centre, 128-146 Burren St, Newtown

• SDN Linthorpe St Newtown, Ground floor, 3 Linthorpe St, Newtown

• KU Carillon Avenue, Carillon Ave, Newtown

The NBN is now available in NEWTOWN with a high internet speed of 1000 Mbps.

Median Sale Price- $1.7m

Median Rent Price- $900pw

 Newtown is located within the inner-city, it attracts musicians, artists, performers, dancers and creatives. King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. The street follows the spine of a long ridge that rises up near Sydney University and extends to the south, becoming the Princes Highway at its southern end. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia.