Perth suburbs / Burswood
Burswood 6100
A free data profile of Burswood, Perth — home to about 2,661 people across 2,511 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Burswood
Burswood is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 2,661 people across 2,511 properties. Residents have a median age of 34, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,480/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Burswood records about 396 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 East Victoria Park Primary School, Lathlain Primary School, Victoria Park Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 1% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Burswood was mostly served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 69% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies. For health services, the suburb has 1 pathology (blood-test) centre 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 — Burswood
Demographic, employment and income insights of 2,779 residents living in Burswood, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 38Household type
Majority are families (59%)Occupancy
48% own their home, 49% 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 Burswood · nearest nearby:
- Perth Montessori Schoolin suburb
- Ursula Frayne Catholic College184 m
- Victoria Park Primary School192 m
- St Augustine'S Primary School264 m
- Victoria Park Christian School274 m
- Regent College323 m
- Trinity College714 m
- St Clare'S School751 m
Primary: East Victoria Park Primary School, Lathlain Primary School, Victoria Park Primary School
Secondary: Belmont City College, Kent Street 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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