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Helena Valley
Ranked #76 of 256 Perth suburbs for green space. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Helena Valley suburb profile: score breakdown
Helena Valley rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 4,130 |
| Area | 7.07 km² |
| Postcode | 6056 |
| Median household income | $2,037/wk |
| Median rent | $400/wk |
| Median house price | not available for Western Australia (no open-licence dataset — see method) |
| Parks | 9 (25.61 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Families score | 53/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 83.9% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 1 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 4 |
| Public transport stops | 0 |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 1 school in the suburb — nearest is Helena Valley Primary School (0.9 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 Helena Valley
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 Helena Valley — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Helena Valley
What is the postcode for Helena Valley?
The postcode for Helena Valley, Perth is 6056.
Is Helena Valley a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Helena Valley is measured on 9 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is green space, ranking #76 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 Helena Valley expensive to live in?
Median rent is $400 a week, and household income ranks #122 of 256 in Perth. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 47/100 for value.
Does Helena Valley have good public transport?
It scores 39/100 for transit, #138 of 256 in Perth. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Helena Valley?
84% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 25.6 hectares per 1,000 residents — 62/100 for green space.
Nearby suburbs
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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