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Toongabbie takes its name from an Aboriginal word, possibly meaning a place near the water; the colonial government farm stood at the meeting of Toongabbie and Quarry Creeks, in what is now Old Toongabbie. The land was subdivided in 1860-61 into small farms, the station opened in 1880, and the Toongabbie Estate of 1916 was the first subdivision of Girraween. Most of the suburban streets came after the Second World War, in subdivisions dated from 1954 through to the early 1970s, and Portico Plaza opened in 1963. Since the 1990s many houses near the centre have been replaced by apartment blocks. The suburb is split between the City of Parramatta, Blacktown City and Cumberland Council. At the 2021 census about six in ten homes were separate houses, one in five townhouses or semis and one in five flats, and about a third were rented.

Greystanes Creek, also called Girraween Creek, runs the length of the suburb, with about a kilometre of it in a concrete channel, and it is known to flood in heavy rain. Blacktown City Council's Greystanes Creek and Pendle Hill Creek Flood Mitigation Study, published in 2022, looked at whether the channels, bridges and culverts from Fox Hills Golf Course down to Fitzwilliam Road and on to Toongabbie Creek can carry a 1 in 100 year flood. Toongabbie Creek itself has bushland along it that the City of Parramatta manages. Most houses here were built in the 1950s and 60s, which makes their sewer and stormwater lines sixty to seventy years old, and the newer townhouses and apartments around Portico Plaza and the station share theirs between neighbours.