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Darling Downs
Ranked #18 of 256 Perth suburbs for value. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Darling Downs suburb profile: score breakdown
Darling Downs rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 1,591 |
| Area | 9.79 km² |
| Postcode | 6122 |
| Median household income | $2,480/wk |
| Median rent | $400/wk |
| Median house price | not available for Western Australia (no open-licence dataset — see method) |
| Parks | 1 (0.0 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Families score | 25/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 8.5% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Public transport stops | 0 |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is Australian Christian College - Darling Downs (2.29 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 Darling Downs
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 Darling Downs — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Darling Downs
What is the postcode for Darling Downs?
The postcode for Darling Downs, Perth is 6122.
Is Darling Downs a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Darling Downs is measured on 9 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is value, ranking #18 of 256 Perth suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Perth for 3 of the 9 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Darling Downs expensive to live in?
Median rent is $400 a week, and household income ranks #26 of 256 in Perth. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 93/100 for value.
Does Darling Downs have good public transport?
It scores 39/100 for transit, #113 of 256 in Perth. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Darling Downs?
8% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park — 0/100 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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