Perth suburbs / East Cannington
East Cannington 6107
A free data profile of East Cannington, Perth — home to about 6,514 people across 3,312 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about East Cannington
East Cannington is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 6,514 people across 3,312 properties. Residents have a median age of 32, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,804/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, East Cannington records about 75 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), around the Perth median of 69 — in line with the typical Perth suburb.
It has 1 school within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Beckenham Primary School, Gibbs Street Primary School, Wattle Grove Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 12% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, East Cannington was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 4% 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 — East Cannington
Demographic, employment and income insights of 6,512 residents living in East Cannington, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 31Household type
Majority are families (74%)Occupancy
57% own their home, 39% 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 East Cannington · nearest nearby:
- Gibbs Street Primary Schoolin suburb
- Sevenoaks Senior College197 m
- Beckenham Primary School638 m
- Cannington Community College694 m
- Cannington Community Education Support Centre694 m
- St Joseph'S School918 m
- St Norbert College928 m
- Wattle Grove Primary School1.0 km
Primary: Beckenham Primary School, Gibbs Street Primary School, Wattle Grove Primary School
Secondary: Darling Range Sports College, Lesmurdie Senior High School
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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