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Shoalwater
Ranked #6 of 256 Perth suburbs for active. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Shoalwater suburb profile: score breakdown
Shoalwater rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 4,368 |
| Area | 2.59 km² |
| Postcode | 6169 |
| Median household income | $1,225/wk |
| Median rent | $260/wk |
| Median house price | not available for Western Australia (no open-licence dataset — see method) |
| Parks | 9 (6.06 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Families score | 52/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 96.7% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 1 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 31 |
| Public transport stops | 0 |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is Safety Bay Primary School (0.62 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 Shoalwater
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 Shoalwater — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Shoalwater
What is the postcode for Shoalwater?
The postcode for Shoalwater, Perth is 6169.
Is Shoalwater a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Shoalwater is measured on 9 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is active, ranking #6 of 256 Perth suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Perth for 5 of the 9 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Shoalwater expensive to live in?
Median rent is $260 a week, and household income ranks #247 of 256 in Perth. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 25/100 for value.
Does Shoalwater have good public transport?
It scores 39/100 for transit, #224 of 256 in Perth. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Shoalwater?
97% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 6.1 hectares per 1,000 residents — 69/100 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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