Perth suburbs / Wattleup
Wattleup 6166
A free data profile of Wattleup, Perth — home to about 534 people across 794 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about Wattleup
Wattleup is a small Perth suburb, home to about 534 people across 794 properties. Residents have a median age of 48, older than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,540/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, Wattleup records about 107 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 Beeliar Primary School, Hammond Park Primary School, Jilbup Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 65% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone — well above most suburbs.
On the NBN, Wattleup 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.
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 — Wattleup
Demographic, employment and income insights of 443 residents living in Wattleup, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 50Household type
Majority are families (72%)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
No schools in Wattleup itself · nearest nearby:
- Hammond Park Primary School124 m
- Jilbup Primary School186 m
- Hammond Park Catholic Primary School611 m
- Hammond Park Secondary College779 m
- Success Primary School1.1 km
- Aubin Grove Primary School1.9 km
- South Coogee Primary School2.0 km
- Harmony Primary School2.3 km
Primary: Beeliar Primary School, Hammond Park Primary School, Jilbup Primary School, South Coogee Primary School, Success Primary School
Secondary: Atwell College, Fremantle College, Gilmore College, Hammond Park Secondary College, Lakeland 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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