Perth suburbs / Hovea
Hovea 6071
A free data profile of Hovea, Perth — home to about 712 people across 309 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Hovea
Hovea is a small Perth suburb, home to about 712 people across 309 properties. Residents have a median age of 34, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,696/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Hovea records about 35 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 Glen Forrest Primary School, Greenmount Primary School, Parkerville Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 100% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone — well above most suburbs.
On the NBN, Hovea was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 0% 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 — Hovea
Demographic, employment and income insights of 713 residents living in Hovea, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 51Household type
Majority are families (83%)Occupancy
95% own their home, 4% 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 Hovea itself · nearest nearby:
- Parkerville Primary School195 m
- Glen Forrest Community Kindergarten460 m
- The Silver Tree Steiner School659 m
- Helena College719 m
- Glen Forrest Primary School1.4 km
- Swan View Primary School1.5 km
- Greenmount Primary School1.9 km
- Swan View Senior High School2.0 km
Primary: Glen Forrest Primary School, Greenmount Primary School, Parkerville Primary School, Swan View Primary School
Secondary: Eastern Hills Senior High School, Kalamunda Senior High School, Swan View 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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