Woolooware is located 24 kilometres (15 mi) south of the Sydney central business district in the Sutherland Shire.

It echoes the area's natural low lying mud flats, salt marsh and once dominant tea tree and black wattle scrub.

All services are double deck electric trains of eight carriages traveling to Bondi Junction stopping at major interchange stations such as Sutherland, Wolli Creek, Sydenham and Central.

Burraneer Bay Public School is located at the southern edge of the suburb on Gannons Road near the small shop area.

It is accessed via three entry points, one to the south, one on Gannons Road and one to the north via a short path.

Woolooware Oval is also used for the local touch football competition and in summer is the home ground for the Cronulla Seagulls Cricket Club.

It also contains Captain Cook Fields, which is the home of the Sutherland Shire Softball Association, and where all of their competition games are held.