Perth suburbs / Alfred Cove
Alfred Cove 6154
A free data profile of Alfred Cove, Perth — home to about 2,946 people across 1,517 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Alfred Cove
Alfred Cove is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 2,946 people across 1,517 properties. Residents have a median age of 43, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,240/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Alfred Cove records about 45 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), below the Perth median of 69 — safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 0 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Applecross Primary School, Attadale Primary School, Booragoon Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 4% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Alfred Cove was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 1% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies.
Generated from WA Police, WA Health, ABS Census 2021, Digital Earth Australia (green cover), ACCC (mobile) and infrastructure.gov.au open data, compared to Perth-metro medians. Housing, tenure & commute: Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Green cover © DEA/Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0). Informational only.
Explore the neighbourhood — Alfred Cove
Demographic, employment and income insights of 2,830 residents living in Alfred Cove, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 41Household type
Majority are families (73%)Occupancy
80% own their home, 17% rentHow it has changed
Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing, 2011, 2016 & 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Suburb-level figures; boundaries differ a little between census years, so trends are indicative.
Who lives here
Housing & tenure
How people commute
Schools & education
No schools in Alfred Cove itself · nearest nearby:
- Booragoon Primary School303 m
- Melville Primary School313 m
- Mel Maria Catholic Primary School889 m
- Attadale Primary School976 m
- Ardross Primary School989 m
- Applecross Senior High School1.0 km
- Melville Senior High School1.1 km
- Caralee Community School1.6 km
Primary: Applecross Primary School, Attadale Primary School, Booragoon Primary School, Melville Primary School
Secondary: Applecross Senior High School, Melville Senior High School
The exact catchment depends on the address — open a specific property on the map to confirm.
Safety & crime
Environment
Getting around
Internet (NBN, 2020)
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