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Caringbah was called Highfield until 1911, when steam trams began running between Sutherland and Cronulla. Most of the land was market gardens, orchards and farms until after the Second World War, and the Cronulla railway line opened in 1939, so much of the suburb was built in the post-war decades. Sutherland Hospital opened on Kareena Road in 1958, and the Caringbah Medical Precinct around it, set up in 2015, encourages health facilities combined with apartments. Today Caringbah itself is mostly units and townhouses: at the 2021 census about 45% of homes were flats, 27% semis or townhouses and 28% separate houses. Caringbah South, a separate suburb since 2008 on the peninsula between Burraneer Bay and Yowie Bay, is the opposite, with about three-quarters separate houses and more than half of homes with four or more bedrooms. Caringbah and Caringbah South are in Sutherland Shire.

Caringbah's houses largely went up after the farms were subdivided, and sewerage came to the Shire in the same period: work on the Cronulla scheme started in 1952 and Premier Joe Cahill opened it in October 1956, with effluent pumped to an ocean outfall at Potter Point. Many homes still drain through pipe of that era, under gardens that have had decades to grow. The north of the suburb drains towards Botany Bay: after the severe storm of May 2003, Sutherland Shire Council grouped Caringbah with Taren Point, Woolooware and Cronulla in a 'Botany Bay catchments' area for flood management, and it has since published flood studies for the Woolooware Bay and Gwawley Bay catchments. Caringbah South drains the other way, down to Port Hacking. Greenhills Beach, next door, is the newest part of the area: a former sand-mining site on the Cronulla dunes, rezoned in 2010 and declared a suburb in 2011. The commercial and light industrial strip along Taren Point Road brings its own share of work.