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Balcatta
Ranked #57 of 256 Perth suburbs for parks. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Balcatta suburb profile: score breakdown
Balcatta rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 10,813 |
| Area | 7.03 km² |
| Median household income | $1,537/wk |
| Median rent | $340/wk |
| Median house price | not available for Western Australia (no open-licence dataset — see method) |
| Parks | 27 (2.92 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Families score | 63/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 77.4% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 2 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 19 |
| Public transport stops | 0 |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 5 schools in the suburb — nearest is Takari Primary School (0.55 km) |
Median sale price: not available for Western Australia — Landgate sells suburb sales reports and REIWA's medians are commercial; there is no open-licence suburb-level sale price dataset for WA.
Who lives in Balcatta
Source: ABS Census 2021. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Balcatta — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Balcatta
Is Balcatta a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Balcatta is measured on 9 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is parks, ranking #57 of 256 Perth suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Perth for 4 of the 9 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Balcatta expensive to live in?
Median rent is $340 a week, and household income ranks #207 of 256 in Perth. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 17/100 for value.
Does Balcatta have good public transport?
It scores 39/100 for transit, #68 of 256 in Perth. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Balcatta?
77% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 2.9 hectares per 1,000 residents — 30/100 for green space.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Perth: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated October 2026 (last updated 2026-10-10). Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
About this data: every number on this page is computed from public sources — it is not an
opinion or a sponsored placement. See how we rank suburbs
for the full method.
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