It is 6 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of Waverley.

There have been many major commercial and residential developments around the main street and surrounding area, notably a new bus/rail interchange and large shopping mall.

[4][5] The name "Bondi" is derived from the Dharawal language, spoken by the Aboriginal clans who lived further from Sydney Harbour southwards to Shoalhaven.

This was accessed by a track leading off the South Head Road (now Oxford Street), the suburb's main thoroughfare.

The subdivision of the estate coincided with the opening of the first tramway to the area – steam trams began operation from Taylor Square in Darlinghurst on 12 March 1881.

[8] With the subdivision of surrounding suburbs complete by 1930, Bondi Junction quickly grew into a major entertainment and commercial centre.

[citation needed] The Eastern Suburbs railway line, terminating at Bondi Junction, was opened in 1979.

In 2002, the boundary was realigned from Oxford Street to the bypass road (see below), giving Waverley Council full control of the commercial areas of the suburb.

[10] In April 2024, Joel Cauchi perpetrated a mass stabbing at Westfield Bondi Junction before being shot dead by police.

Architects Charles Bohringer & Associates (who also remodelled the Enmore Theatre in 1937) redesigned the cinema in an Art Deco style before it was reopened in 1938.

[14] The building reopened the in 1978 as the Star Rock Concert, and started showing films, but it closed permanently later in the year and was demolished in 1981.

The Bondi Junction Bypass (later renamed Syd Einfeld Drive after the notable local man and one-time Member for Phillip), unlike the railway, was constructed quickly, opening on 6 January 1979.

With the railway opening in June 1979, major changes to traffic flow were made in Bondi Junction.

[citation needed] Construction began in April 1999 for a new bus interchange and two residential apartment towers of over 70 m high.

There are also two smaller shopping centre nearby, Eastgate Bondi Junction located below the Eastgate residential apartment development and a shopping centre above the station and bus interchange known as Meriton Retail Precinct Bondi Junction.

], at least twenty buildings of 12 levels or higher have been constructed including Bondi Junction Private Hospital[16] The first large development was the Eastern Suburbs Leagues Club (Easts), the local rugby league club for the Eastern Suburbs Roosters.

In the 1980s, following the completion of the Eastern Suburbs Railway, commercial development reached a peak with several office buildings built in the centre of Bondi Junction.

The next most common countries of birth were England 9.0%, Brazil 3.8%, Ireland 3.2%, China (excluding SARs and Taiwan) 3.0% and South Africa 2.6%.