Badgerys Creek real estate

The suburb is named for James Badgery, a British-born farmer and miller. In 1806 he was granted 840 acres lying north of Elizabeth Drive. He gave the property the name Exeter Farm, but it was the creek that crossed it which took his name instead: the stream became known as Badgery's Creek, and in time the surrounding district was called that as well.

The ground covered by the original grant is used for farming research today, by the CSIRO and the University of Sydney. Badgery bought more land to the south of it. The suburb is also known as Badgery's Creek, and sometimes as Aerotropolis. The district beside the creek kept his name, and the suburb still carries it.

After Badgery died the district was divided up in the 1880s, and the local population grew sharply. The post office at Badgerys Creek began in July 1894 and shut in 1989. A school opened in 1895, and the district developed over the years as a rural suburb.

The Fleurs field station operated at Badgerys Creek between 1954 and 1991, and it was an important place for Australian radio astronomy. It hosted several radio telescope arrays. The CSIRO ran the station at first, and the University of Sydney took over later. By 1981 the suburb had 1,560 residents.

The federal government announced in 1986 that the Second Sydney Airport would go to Badgerys Creek. It bought a number of properties for the airport, and that purchase, together with worries about living near an airport, led many people to leave. By 1996 fewer than 500 people remained. Construction had not begun.

In 2012 a report into Sydney's aviation needs, which cost A$8 million, concluded that Badgerys Creek was still the best site, and building work was then scheduled to start in 2016. The Western Sydney Airport began flight operations in 2026.

In March 2023 part of the suburb's south-east was included in Bradfield, a suburb gazetted at that time.

The creek that gave the suburb its name still runs north into a reservoir in the north of the suburb, and South Creek does the same. South Creek marks the eastern boundary, and west of the reservoir stands Mills Hill. Raymond Hill, 125 metres AHD, is just over a kilometre south-west of Mills Hill.

Oaky Creek forms the western boundary. Where the two streams meet, 500 metres north of Elizabeth Drive, the watercourse is called Cosgrove Creek. To the south-west rises the hill known as Anchau, 118 metres AHD.