Perth suburbs / Mount Lawley
Mount Lawley 6050
A free data profile of Mount Lawley, Perth — home to about 11,096 people across 7,126 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Mount Lawley
Mount Lawley is a large Perth suburb, home to about 11,096 people across 7,126 properties. Residents have a median age of 39, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,340/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Mount Lawley records about 76 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), around the Perth median of 69 — in line with the typical Perth suburb.
It has 4 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Coolbinia Primary School, Highgate Primary School, Inglewood Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 2% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Mount Lawley 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 2 hospitals, 6 pathology (blood-test) centres, 3 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 — Mount Lawley
Demographic, employment and income insights of 11,328 residents living in Mount Lawley, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 38Household type
Majority are families (60%)Occupancy
61% own their home, 37% 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
4 schools in Mount Lawley · nearest nearby:
- Mount Lawley Senior High Schoolin suburb
- Perth Collegein suburb
- St Paul'S Primary Schoolin suburb
- Mount Lawley Primary Schoolin suburb
- Sacred Heart Primary School26 m
- Highgate Primary School422 m
- North Perth Primary School617 m
- Coolbinia Primary School860 m
Primary: Coolbinia Primary School, Highgate Primary School, Inglewood Primary School, Maylands Peninsula Primary School, Mount Lawley Primary School, North Perth Primary School
Secondary: 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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