Hip & cafés
Mount Lawley, Highgate & Inglewood
Beaufort Street, end to end
- From the CBD
- 3.8 km
- Area
- 17 km²
- Rent
- High rent
- Suburbs
- 7
One avenue — Beaufort Street — carries the lot: brunch cafés, small bars, restaurants, the Astor Theatre and, on Monday nights, the Inglewood Night Markets. The side streets are 1930s brick houses under big trees, and Maylands pulls the same mood down to the river.
Good for
- Neighbourhood life without living downtown
- Coffee and food within walking distance
- A couple with one car or none
Watch out
Pretty old houses usually mean bad insulation: hot in summer, cold in winter.
Getting around
Frequent buses along Beaufort; Maylands and Mount Lawley stations on the Midland line.
Suburbs
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Places here
Hyde Park
A Victorian park in Highgate with huge fig trees and two lakes. It turns gold in autumn — rare in Perth.
See photos and details on Google Maps →Other areas
These are impressions, not statistics: one person, a few months, a city of two million. Suburbs change street by street — use this to know what to go and look at, then go and look.