Perth suburbs / West Perth
West Perth 6005
A free data profile of West Perth, Perth — home to about 6,177 people across 7,657 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about West Perth
West Perth is a mid-sized Perth suburb, home to about 6,177 people across 7,657 properties. Residents have a median age of 34, younger than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,779/week, around the metro median of $1,868. On safety, West Perth records about 163 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 Highgate Primary School, North Perth Primary School, Rosalie Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 7% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, West Perth 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 2 pathology (blood-test) centres, 1 pharmacy 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 — West Perth
Demographic, employment and income insights of 6,102 residents living in West Perth, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 35Household type
Majority are single-person (47%)Occupancy
34% own their home, 63% 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 West Perth itself · nearest nearby:
- Perth Modern School229 m
- Rosalie Primary School357 m
- School Of Isolated And Distance Education451 m
- Bob Hawke College546 m
- North Perth Primary School672 m
- St George'S Anglican Grammar School753 m
- Subiaco Primary School754 m
- Highgate Primary School881 m
Primary: Highgate Primary School, North Perth Primary School, Rosalie Primary School, Subiaco Primary School, West Leederville Primary School
Secondary: Bob Hawke College, Mount Lawley Senior High School, Shenton 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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