Industrial & logistics
Kwinana
Perth's heavy industry
- From the CBD
- 30 km
- Area
- 117 km²
- Rent
- Cheap rent
- Suburbs
- 17
The southern industrial belt: refineries, alumina, fertiliser, the port and the Henderson shipyards. This is where a lot of operations, maintenance and transport jobs are, and where the workforce that fills them lives — Medina, Orelia and Calista are among the cheapest rents around.
Good for
- Industrial and maintenance work
- Very cheap rent
- People with heavy-industry tickets
Watch out
Air quality and industrial noise on some streets, plus a social reputation that is hard to ignore.
Getting around
The Mandurah line (Kwinana) and local buses to the plants.
Suburbs
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Other areas
Perth Hills Bush, waterfalls and three degrees cooler Rottnest Island The quokka island Joondalup Perth's second city Wanneroo, Landsdale & Madeley New estates without the far edge Hillarys, Sorrento & Mullaloo Family beaches, no hangover Swan Valley & Guildford Wine, breweries and kangaroos 30 minutes out
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.