Residential & family

Stirling, Balcatta & Osborne Park

The well-placed middle ground

From the CBD: 8.8 km
Area: 29 km²
Rent: Mid rent
Suburbs: 7

Quiet residential streets pressed against two corridors that solve daily life: Scarborough Beach Road, lined with big-box stores and car yards in Osborne Park, and Stirling station, a bus and train interchange. It sits midway between the city, the beach and the north.

Good for

Quiet without being far from anything
Retail, workshop and warehouse jobs
A good-value first share house

Watch out

Osborne Park is commercial and light-industrial — truck noise and no nightlife.

Getting around

Stirling station on the Yanchep line, with a bus interchange serving the whole area.

Suburbs

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Places here

Herdsman Lake

A reserve full of waterbirds with a walking circuit. Far quieter than Lake Monger.

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Other areas

Morley, Bayswater & Bassendean Big mall, river close, new train 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 Wembley, Floreat & City Beach Big house, backyard, beach in 10 minutes Nollamara, Dianella & Mirrabooka Where the newly arrived start

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.