Perth suburbs / East Perth
East Perth 6004
A free data profile of East Perth, Perth — home to about 11,797 people across 9,517 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about East Perth
East Perth is a large Perth suburb, home to about 11,797 people across 9,517 properties. Residents have a median age of 36, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,991/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, East Perth records about 182 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 1 school within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Highgate Primary School, Lathlain Primary School, Maylands Peninsula Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On the NBN, East Perth was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 16% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies.
For health services, the suburb has 3 pathology (blood-test) centres, 2 pharmacies 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 — East Perth
Demographic, employment and income insights of 11,681 residents living in East Perth, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 35Household type
Majority are families (51%)Occupancy
36% own their home, 61% 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 Perth · nearest nearby:
- Trinity Collegein suburb
- Mercedes College187 m
- Victoria Park Christian School478 m
- Regent College580 m
- Victoria Park Primary School699 m
- Perth Montessori School861 m
- Perth College935 m
- Sacred Heart Primary School957 m
Primary: Highgate Primary School, Lathlain Primary School, Maylands Peninsula Primary School, Victoria Park Primary School
Secondary: Bob Hawke College, Mount Lawley 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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