Perth suburbs / Byford
Byford 6122
A free data profile of Byford, Perth — home to about 18,857 people across 9,628 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Byford
Byford is a large Perth suburb, home to about 18,857 people across 9,628 properties. Residents have a median age of 33, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,935/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Byford records about 70 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), around the Perth median of 69 — in line with the typical Perth suburb.
It has 9 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Armadale Primary School, Beenyup Primary School, Byford Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 78% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone — well above most suburbs.
On the NBN, Byford was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 15% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies. For health services, the suburb has 6 pathology (blood-test) centres, 3 pharmacies 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 — Byford
Demographic, employment and income insights of 18,878 residents living in Byford, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 31Household type
Majority are families (83%)Occupancy
83% own their home, 15% 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
9 schools in Byford · nearest nearby:
- Woodland Grove Primary Schoolin suburb
- Salvado Catholic Collegein suburb
- Byford John Calvin Schoolin suburb
- Byford Primary Schoolin suburb
- Marri Grove Primary Schoolin suburb
- Beenyup Primary Schoolin suburb
- Byford Community Kindergartenin suburb
- Byford Secondary Collegein suburb
Primary: Armadale Primary School, Beenyup Primary School, Byford Primary School, Marri Grove Primary School, West Byford Primary School, Woodland Grove Primary School
Secondary: Byford Secondary College
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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