Perth suburbs / Oakford
Oakford 6121
A free data profile of Oakford, Perth — home to about 2,801 people across 1,185 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Oakford
Oakford is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 2,801 people across 1,185 properties. Residents have a median age of 43, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $2,450/week, above the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Oakford records about 40 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 Forrestdale Primary School, Honeywood Primary School, Sunrise 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, Oakford was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 1% 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 — Oakford
Demographic, employment and income insights of 2,803 residents living in Oakford, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 42Household type
Majority are families (89%)Occupancy
92% own their home, 5% 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 Oakford itself · nearest nearby:
- West Byford Primary School589 m
- Woodland Grove Primary School683 m
- Australian Islamic College Forrestdale1.2 km
- Beenyup Primary School1.8 km
- Carey Baptist College - Forrestdale2.1 km
- Honeywood Primary School2.2 km
- Salvado Catholic College2.4 km
Primary: Forrestdale Primary School, Honeywood Primary School, Sunrise Primary School, West Byford Primary School, Woodland Grove Primary School, Wungong Primary School
Secondary: Byford Secondary College, Gilmore College, Hammond Park Secondary College, Harrisdale Senior High School, Piara Waters 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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