Perth suburbs / Dayton
Dayton 6055
A free data profile of Dayton, Perth — home to about 5,508 people across 3,103 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Dayton
Dayton is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 5,508 people across 3,103 properties. Residents have a median age of 31, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,132/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Dayton records about 53 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), below the Perth median of 69 — safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 2 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Caversham Primary School, Caversham Valley Primary School, Dayton Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 7% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Dayton was partly served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 54% 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 — Dayton
Demographic, employment and income insights of 5,507 residents living in Dayton, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 30Household type
Majority are families (81%)Occupancy
77% own their home, 22% 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
2 schools in Dayton · nearest nearby:
- Dayton Primary Schoolin suburb
- Emmaus Catholic Primary Schoolin suburb
- Caversham Primary School150 m
- Caversham Valley Primary School573 m
- East Beechboro Primary School1.7 km
- Maarakool Primary School2.4 km
- Beechboro Christian School2.5 km
Primary: Caversham Primary School, Caversham Valley Primary School, Dayton Primary School, Maarakool Primary School
Secondary: Kiara 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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