Perth suburbs / Cannington
Cannington 6107
A free data profile of Cannington, Perth — home to about 6,874 people across 5,481 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Cannington
Cannington is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 6,874 people across 5,481 properties. Residents have a median age of 31, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,472/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Cannington records about 493 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 3 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Beckenham Primary School, Gibbs Street Primary School, Wilson Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 16% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Cannington was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 2% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies. For health services, the suburb has 4 pathology (blood-test) centres, 4 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 — Cannington
Demographic, employment and income insights of 6,875 residents living in Cannington, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 30Household type
Majority are families (63%)Occupancy
40% own their home, 57% 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
3 schools in Cannington · nearest nearby:
- Cannington Community Education Support Centrein suburb
- Cannington Community Collegein suburb
- Sevenoaks Senior Collegein suburb
- St Joseph'S School130 m
- St Norbert College339 m
- Beckenham Primary School642 m
- Brookman Primary School810 m
- Al-Hidayah Islamic School963 m
Primary: Beckenham Primary School, Gibbs Street Primary School, Wilson Primary 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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