Perth suburbs / Clarkson
Clarkson 6030
A free data profile of Clarkson, Perth — home to about 11,674 people across 7,027 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Clarkson
Clarkson is a large Perth suburb, home to about 11,674 people across 7,027 properties. Residents have a median age of 34, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,685/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Clarkson records about 108 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 5 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Clarkson Primary School, Merriwa Primary School, Mindarie Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 15% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Clarkson was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 22% 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 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 — Clarkson
Demographic, employment and income insights of 13,904 residents living in Clarkson, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 34Household type
Majority are families (74%)Occupancy
68% own their home, 31% 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
5 schools in Clarkson · nearest nearby:
- Clarkson Primary Schoolin suburb
- St Andrew'S Catholic Primary Schoolin suburb
- Somerly Primary Schoolin suburb
- Youth Futures Community Schoolin suburb
- Clarkson Community High Schoolin suburb
- Quinns Baptist College164 m
- Peter Moyes Anglican Community School423 m
- Mindarie Primary School489 m
Primary: Clarkson Primary School, Merriwa Primary School, Mindarie Primary School, Somerly Primary School
Secondary: Clarkson Community High School, Joseph Banks 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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