Perth suburbs / Safety Bay
Safety Bay 6169
A free data profile of Safety Bay, Perth — home to about 7,660 people across 3,831 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Safety Bay
Safety Bay is a large Perth suburb, home to about 7,660 people across 3,831 properties. Residents have a median age of 45, older than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,460/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Safety Bay records about 56 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), below the Perth median of 69 — safer than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 3 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Bungaree Primary School, Charthouse Primary School, Cooloongup Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 9% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Safety Bay 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 — Safety Bay
Demographic, employment and income insights of 7,662 residents living in Safety Bay, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 44Household type
Majority are families (71%)Occupancy
78% own their home, 20% 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 Safety Bay · nearest nearby:
- Malibu Schoolin suburb
- Safety Bay Primary Schoolin suburb
- Safety Bay Senior High Schoolin suburb
- Bungaree Primary School817 m
- Charthouse Primary School904 m
- Cooloongup Primary School930 m
- South Coast Baptist College1.1 km
- East Waikiki Primary School1.1 km
Primary: Bungaree Primary School, Charthouse Primary School, Cooloongup Primary School, Hillman Primary School, Rockingham Beach Primary School, Safety Bay Primary School
Secondary: Rockingham Senior High School, Safety Bay 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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