Beach & coast

Rockingham & Baldivis

Calm water and penguins

From the CBD: 44 km
Area: 225 km²
Rent: Cheap rent
Suburbs: 15

Rockingham sits on a sheltered bay, so the water is flat as a pool — very different from the rest of the coast. The ferry to Penguin Island leaves from here, with its little-penguin colony and sea lions. Baldivis inland is one of the fastest-growing estates in the state.

Good for

Swimming with kids in flat water
Cheap rent with the beach in front
Working in Kwinana industry

Watch out

45 km from the city. This is a genuine satellite town, not a Perth suburb.

Getting around

The Mandurah line (Rockingham, Warnbro) with buses to the foreshore.

Suburbs

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Places here

Penguin Island

A short ferry from Rockingham to an island with little penguins and sea lions. Closed over summer for breeding.

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Other areas

Armadale, Kelmscott & Byford The lowest rent in the metro area Clarkson, Butler, Alkimos & Yanchep New cheap house, far from everything Rottnest Island The quokka island Kwinana Perth's heavy industry Perth Hills Bush, waterfalls and three degrees cooler Joondalup Perth's second city

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.