Affordable & multicultural

Morley, Bayswater & Bassendean

Big mall, river close, new train

From the CBD: 8.9 km
Area: 45 km²
Rent: Mid rent
Suburbs: 10

Morley revolves around the Galleria, one of the biggest malls in town, and gained a train station with the Ellenbrook line. Bayswater and Bassendean run down to the bend of the Swan: older houses, riverside parks and a suburb that is gentrifying fast.

Good for

Value with a train at the door
Working in the east or at the airport
Riverside parks and bike paths

Watch out

Tonkin Highway and the railway cut through — check the noise before you sign.

Getting around

The Ellenbrook line (Morley, Bayswater) and the Midland line (Bassendean, Ashfield).

Suburbs

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Places here

Galleria Morley

The north-eastern mall, now with an Ellenbrook line station beside it.

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Other areas

Stirling, Balcatta & Osborne Park The well-placed middle ground Belmont, Rivervale & the airport Close to everything, pretty in almost nothing Applecross, Mount Pleasant & Booragoon Riverside south, with good schools Western Suburbs Perth's old money Nollamara, Dianella & Mirrabooka Where the newly arrived start Wembley, Floreat & City Beach Big house, backyard, beach in 10 minutes

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.