Perth suburbs / Chidlow
Chidlow 6556
A free data profile of Chidlow, Perth — home to about 1,949 people across 1,020 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Chidlow
Chidlow is a small Perth suburb, home to about 1,949 people across 1,020 properties. Residents have a median age of 45, older than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,911/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Chidlow records about 27 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), well below the Perth median of 69 — notably safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 1 school within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Chidlow Primary School, Gidgegannup Primary School, Mount Helena Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 99% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone — well above most suburbs.
On the NBN, Chidlow was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 0% 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 — Chidlow
Demographic, employment and income insights of 1,821 residents living in Chidlow, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 44Household type
Majority are families (77%)Occupancy
87% own their home, 10% 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 Chidlow · nearest nearby:
- Chidlow Primary Schoolin suburb
- Eastern Hills Senior High School247 m
- Mount Helena Primary School420 m
- Eastern Hills Community Kindergarten And Playgroup628 m
- Wooroloo Primary School1.9 km
Primary: Chidlow Primary School, Gidgegannup Primary School, Mount Helena Primary School
Secondary: Eastern Hills 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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