Perth suburbs / Spearwood
Spearwood 6163
A free data profile of Spearwood, Perth — home to about 11,256 people across 6,243 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Spearwood
Spearwood is a large Perth suburb, home to about 11,256 people across 6,243 properties. Residents have a median age of 42, close to the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,502/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Spearwood records about 110 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 3 schools within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Coolbellup Community School, Newton Primary School, Phoenix Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 34% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, Spearwood was only in small pockets served by fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) as of July 2020 — about 5% of the built-up area — with the rest on older fixed-line or wireless technologies. For health services, the suburb has 4 pathology (blood-test) centres 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 — Spearwood
Demographic, employment and income insights of 10,944 residents living in Spearwood, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 41Household type
Majority are families (66%)Occupancy
69% own their home, 29% 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 Spearwood · nearest nearby:
- Newton Primary Schoolin suburb
- Spearwood Primary Schoolin suburb
- Spearwood Alternative Schoolin suburb
- Phoenix Primary School107 m
- St Jerome'S Primary School133 m
- Southwell Primary School374 m
- Coogee Primary School902 m
- Fremantle Christian College1.0 km
Primary: Coolbellup Community School, Newton Primary School, Phoenix Primary School, Southwell Primary School
Secondary: Fremantle College
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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