Perth suburbs / Shoalwater
Shoalwater 6169
A free data profile of Shoalwater, Perth — home to about 4,359 people across 2,812 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Shoalwater
Shoalwater is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 4,359 people across 2,812 properties. Residents have a median age of 48, older than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,397/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Shoalwater records about 82 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 0 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Bungaree Primary School, Rockingham Beach Primary School, Safety Bay Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 28% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Shoalwater 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.
Who lives here
Schools & education
No schools in Shoalwater itself · nearest nearby:
- Safety Bay Primary School175 m
- Rockingham Beach Education Support Centre993 m
- Rockingham Beach Primary School1.1 km
- Bungaree Primary School1.2 km
- Safety Bay Senior High School1.4 km
- Star Of The Sea Primary School1.4 km
- Malibu School1.6 km
- Rockingham Senior High School1.6 km
Primary: Bungaree 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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