Perth suburbs / Beckenham
Beckenham 6107
A free data profile of Beckenham, Perth — home to about 9,084 people across 4,933 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Beckenham
Beckenham is a large Perth suburb, home to about 9,084 people across 4,933 properties. Residents have a median age of 34, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,625/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Beckenham records about 106 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 1 school within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Beckenham Primary School, Brookman Primary School, East Kenwick Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 32% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Beckenham was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 4% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies. For health services, the suburb has 3 pathology (blood-test) centres, 1 pharmacy within its bounds.
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 — Beckenham
Demographic, employment and income insights of 9,092 residents living in Beckenham, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 34Household type
Majority are families (70%)Occupancy
62% own their home, 36% 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
1 school in Beckenham · nearest nearby:
- Beckenham Primary Schoolin suburb
- Kenwick School402 m
- Communicare Academy493 m
- Rehoboth Christian College777 m
- Brookman Primary School806 m
- Gibbs Street Primary School835 m
- Yale Primary School908 m
- East Kenwick Primary School921 m
Primary: Beckenham Primary School, Brookman Primary School, East Kenwick Primary School, Gibbs Street Primary School, Maddington Primary School, Thornlie Primary School, Wattle Grove Primary School
Secondary: Darling Range Sports College, Lesmurdie Senior High School, Lynwood Senior High School, Thornlie Senior High School
The exact catchment depends on the address — open a specific property on the map to confirm.
Safety & crime
Health & medical
Environment
Getting around
Internet (NBN, 2020)
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