Perth suburbs / Darling Downs
Darling Downs 6122
A free data profile of Darling Downs, Perth — home to about 1,595 people across 866 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Darling Downs
Darling Downs is a small Perth suburb, home to about 1,595 people across 866 properties. Residents have a median age of 41, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,502/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Darling Downs records about 37 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), well below the Perth median of 69 — notably safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 0 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Byford Primary School, Marri Grove Primary School, West Byford 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, Darling Downs was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 7% 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 — Darling Downs
Demographic, employment and income insights of 1,591 residents living in Darling Downs, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 39Household type
Majority are families (85%)Occupancy
93% own their home, 6% 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
No schools in Darling Downs itself · nearest nearby:
- Marri Grove Primary School832 m
- West Byford Primary School956 m
- Australian Christian College - Darling Downs1.2 km
- Byford Community Kindergarten1.3 km
- Byford Primary School1.6 km
- Salvado Catholic College2.0 km
- Byford Secondary College2.1 km
- Xavier Catholic School2.1 km
Primary: Byford Primary School, Marri Grove Primary School, West Byford Primary School, Wungong Primary School
Secondary: Byford Secondary College
The exact catchment depends on the address — open a specific property on the map to confirm.
Safety & crime
Environment
Getting around
Internet (NBN, 2020)
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