Narwee is located 18 kilometres south of the Sydney central business district and is part of the St George area.

A number of Sydney suburbs developed during the 1930s have similar allegedly Aboriginal names, the origins of which are uncertain, including nearby Panania, and Jannali.

Little building was done during the Depression and World War II, but the suburb grew rapidly in the 1950s, when the area was settled by young families.

[citation needed] Narwee Primary School is built on land given in 1809, to Richard Podmore, a free settler, who came to New South Wales as a soldier in the N.S.W.

Narwee did not exist as a locality; it was called "Bob the Gardner's Farm", and there were so few people living in the area that bushrangers could easily hide for weeks in the forest without being discovered.

[3] The main shopping strip is located in Broad Arrow Road parallel with and adjacent to Narwee railway station.

43.9% stated they were born in Australia with the top overseas countries of birth being China (15.3%), Hong Kong (3.6%), Philippines (3.6%), Indonesia (2.5%) and Lebanon (2.4%).