City & towers

Joondalup

Perth's second city

From the CBD: 26 km
Area: 34 km²
Rent: Mid rent
Suburbs: 8

Joondalup was planned from scratch as the northern regional centre and is the closest thing to a second CBD: a university (ECU), a hospital, courts, the Lakeside mall and office blocks around a lake. Burns Beach and Iluka on the western edge are the beach-and-new-build side.

Good for

Studying at ECU
Construction and services work in the northern corridor
City infrastructure away from downtown

Watch out

25 km from the city — if you work in the CBD it is close to an hour of train a day.

Getting around

Joondalup station on the Yanchep line, direct to the city.

Suburbs

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Places here

Burns Beach

A small northern beach with a coastal path to Mindarie. Where I got my first construction job.

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Lakeside Joondalup

The biggest mall in the northern corridor, right at Joondalup station.

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Posts from here

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Other areas

Wanneroo, Landsdale & Madeley New estates without the far edge Perth Hills Bush, waterfalls and three degrees cooler Kwinana Perth's heavy industry Hillarys, Sorrento & Mullaloo Family beaches, no hangover Swan Valley & Guildford Wine, breweries and kangaroos 30 minutes out Cockburn & Coogee Southern growth with its own beach

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.