Glebe is located in Sydney’s Inner West. Ultimo is to the east, Chippendale to the southeast, the University of Sydney to the south, Camperdown to the southwest, Annandale to the west, and the harbour (Rozelle and Blackwattle Bays) to the north. Glebe and Forest Lodge – postcode 2037 – have a population of about 13,500.

City of Sydney Council has a page on Glebe, Forest Lodge and Broadway.

Australia’s first prime minister, Edmund Barton, was born in Glebe, in 1849.