Betty Ockerlander is a top real estate agent for Eastwood, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. The local government areas are the City of Ryde and the City of Parramatta. Eastwood is located 17 kilometres north-west of the Sydney central business district. Eastwood is in the Northern Suburbs region. Today it is a large suburban centre in the north of Sydney of over 14,000 people, with a large shopping area. Eastwood has a large population of Asian descent with immigrants from China transforming the commercial precinct in the past decade. Eastwood is located at the edge of the Hornsby Plateau with the suburbs of Dundas Valley and Denistone on its western and southern sides, respectively, as the land falls away down to the Cumberland Plain. Eastwood is bounded by the transport hub of Epping and to its east Marsfield which shares the same postcode of 2122. The suburb is predominantly residential with the main shopping area of Eastwood centred between Rowe Street and Rutledge Street around the railway line. The Eastwood commercial district is located around Eastwood railway station. In spite of the range of public transport options, the 2016 census found that only 31% of employed people travelled to work on public transport and 53% by car (either as driver or as passenger).