18
Median minutes for the Jerrabomberra Creek brigade, alert to arrival. Not a Googong-only figure. 61 members live in the Googong area. The truck is not based in the town.
The ambulance is still in Queanbeyan.
About a 14-minute drive from Erin Street, if a crew is free. About a 3-minute drive if one started in town. Those are road estimates, not logged response times. Fire and Rescue still comes from Queanbeyan.
This is one part of it.
Schools, the oval, the shops and the streets are already in. The hills behind them are still being built on. The council’s population forecast is about 10,200 people in 2026, and about 20,300 by 2046.
None of that puts an ambulance or a fire truck in the town.
What-if
Send a crew. Watch the minutes.
Pick the emergency and the street. The ember truck leaves from today’s station. The light truck leaves from a hub inside Googong. Times are indicative road travel, not an official response.
Today
14 min
Queanbeyan ambulance
13.9 min on the road · 10.5 km
If the hub existed
3 min
Township hub
3.2 min on the road · 2.1 km
0:00
Both are moving. The township hub is closer by 11 minutes.
NSW Ambulance, Erin Street Illustrative hub, Observer St & Wellsvale Dr
Road times are OpenStreetMap estimates between fixed points, calculated once and baked in. Scroll on the map to zoom. It stays where you leave it. Use “See the hub” to look inside Googong. These are not live traffic, not Google, and not NSW Ambulance or fire-service response statistics. A real response also includes call-taking. For an ambulance, this assumes a Queanbeyan crew is free to leave. One childcare emergency on the public record waited 25 minutes for a crew that came from Bungendore.
Same size of town
NSW is designing a station for Huntlee. Googong still has the longer drive.
Both are planned for about 20,000 people. NSW is already designing an ambulance station for Huntlee. Googong still starts from Queanbeyan.
Googongfrom Queanbeyan
13–16min
Huntleefrom Branxton
4–6min
About 7–12 minutes longer for Googong. Road travel only. Huntlee’s new station is not open yet, so this uses Branxton.
Already on the record
No published date for a station.
35
Fire & Rescue calls to Googong in the released tables: 8 in 2024, 16 in 2025, 11 in 2026 up to that release. No published date for a station here.
14
More paramedics announced for Queanbeyan, due in early 2027. The announcement does not move the station out of Queanbeyan.
Rural fire incidents: 42 in 2023–24 · 50 in 2024–25 · 38 in 2025–26. Latest year to 9 June.
A parent’s public account. Not an ambulance or fire log.
- 17 minutes. An ambulance to a child at Our Place.
- 25 minutes. The next one came from Bungendore.
- 40 minutes. Fire, while the children waited outside.
Rates
The notice went up. The ambulance did not move.
Example, median-value house
$5,173
Council’s July 2026 example notice. $388 more than the same example last year.
Most of that jump is water, sewer, waste and stormwater. The ordinary rate barely moved. None of it stations a crew in town.
Average ordinary rate, 2026–27
Googong3,538 residential assessments
$2,546
Queanbeyan urbanSame council
$2,226
BungendoreSame council
$1,594
Googong has the highest average ordinary residential rate in the council’s table. The draft accounts, not yet audited, put the emergency services levy at $1.78 million last year, for the whole council: Fire and Rescue, the Rural Fire Service and the SES. It does not put a truck on Gorman Drive. An ambulance or Fire and Rescue station is a state decision.
Sign the petitionTake part
A station in the town. A date on the record.
Sign the petition for a station in Googong, and a public date.
A letter you can send
To the Member for Monaro, the health minister, or council.
I live in Googong. The council’s population forecast has about 10,200 people here in 2026 and about 20,300 by 2046. There is still no ambulance or fire station in the town. A drive from Queanbeyan is about 13–16 minutes, and only if a crew is free. That is a road estimate, not a logged response time. Huntlee is planned for about 20,000 people. A drive from Branxton is about 4–6 minutes. NSW is designing an ambulance station at North Rothbury. It is not open. Our rural fire brigade’s median arrival, across the brigade, is 18 minutes after the alert. Council’s example notice for a median-value Googong house is $5,173 this year, $388 more than last year’s example. That bill is not a station in the town. Please publish a date for a permanent ambulance presence in Googong, and a fire truck based in the town.
Campaign contact
A response-time story you will put on the record, or a correction.
googongambulancefirenow@gmail.comThis page was built so neighbours can see the same documents. It is a campaign, not an official site of NSW Ambulance, Fire and Rescue NSW, the Rural Fire Service, or the council.
Growth
The people are in Googong. The ambulance is still in Queanbeyan.
About 10,200 people in the 2026 forecast. About 20,300 by 2046. More paramedics at Erin Street still leave from Erin Street.
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10,212
forecast residents
If calls simply follow the people
16
Fire & Rescue jobs in Googong in a year, starting from 16 calls in 2025.
In that same forecast, children under 15 rise from about 2,100 in 2021 to about 5,700 by 2046. People 75 and over rise from 135 to about 710.