Northmead is located 26 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of the City of Parramatta.

Northmead is a hilly suburb with low to medium density houses, townhouses and apartment buildings, and a large light industrial area.

From this time, orchards were established by many new settlers, including some whose names were well known in the Parramatta area - George Oakes, Nat Payten and William Fullagar among them.

This results in highly operational bus services in the Hills District - an area that is one of the fastest growing in Australia.

Long underperforming due to an increasing preference for faster and more modern motor buses, it was decided in 1929[6] under conservative (United Australia Party) Premier Bertram Stevens that the line should be decommissioned, which eventually took place on 31 January 1932.

Other languages spoken at home included Mandarin 3.6%, Arabic 3.0%, Korean 2.5%, Persian (excluding Dari) 2.4% and Cantonese 2.3%.