Perth suburbs / West Swan
West Swan 6055
A free data profile of West Swan, Perth — home to about 788 people across 307 properties. Schools & catchments, crime, demographics, health and NBN for every home on the map.
What the data says about West Swan
West Swan is a small Perth suburb, home to about 788 people across 307 properties. Residents have a median age of 49, older than the Perth median of 40. Households earn a median $1,459/week, below the metro median of $1,868. On safety, West Swan records about 99 offences per 1,000 residents (FY 2024-25), above the Perth median of 69 — higher-crime than the typical Perth suburb.
It has 1 school within its bounds, and its public catchment includes Caversham Primary School, Caversham Valley Primary School, Dayton Primary School (the exact catchment depends on the address). On bushfire risk, about 44% of the suburb is mapped bushfire-prone.
On the NBN, West Swan 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 — West Swan
Demographic, employment and income insights of 786 residents living in West Swan, based on the ABS 2021 Census.
Age profile
Median age 42Household type
Majority are families (74%)Occupancy
79% own their home, 14% 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
1 school in West Swan · nearest nearby:
- Caversham Primary Schoolin suburb
- Dayton Primary School562 m
- Maarakool Primary School647 m
- Swan Christian College678 m
- Emmaus Catholic Primary School898 m
- Brabham Primary School1.3 km
- Caversham Valley Primary School1.3 km
- St Brigid'S Primary School1.4 km
Primary: Caversham Primary School, Caversham Valley Primary School, Dayton Primary School, Maarakool Primary School
Secondary: Ellenbrook Secondary College, Governor Stirling Senior High School, Kiara College
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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