Perth suburbs / Mount Helena
Mount Helena 6082
A free data profile of Mount Helena, Perth — home to about 3,378 people across 1,480 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Mount Helena
Mount Helena is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 3,378 people across 1,480 properties. Residents have a median age of 43, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,863/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Mount Helena records about 31 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), well below the Perth median of 69 — notably safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 3 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Chidlow Primary School, Gidgegannup Primary School, Mount Helena Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 98% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone — well above most suburbs.
On the NBN, Mount Helena 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. For health services, the suburb has 1 pathology (blood-test) centre 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 — Mount Helena
Demographic, employment and income insights of 3,373 residents living in Mount Helena, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 41Household type
Majority are families (81%)Occupancy
88% own their home, 10% 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
3 schools in Mount Helena · nearest nearby:
- Eastern Hills Community Kindergarten And Playgroupin suburb
- Mount Helena Primary Schoolin suburb
- Eastern Hills Senior High Schoolin suburb
- Mundaring Christian College1.2 km
- Mundaring Primary School1.3 km
- Sawyers Valley Primary School1.6 km
Primary: Chidlow Primary School, Gidgegannup Primary School, Mount Helena Primary School, Mundaring Primary School
Secondary: Eastern Hills 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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