Camillo WA 6111
Camillo sits 30 km from Perth CBD in Western Australia, around 34 minutes by car. Census data records 4,442 residents with a median age of 37 and a median household income of $66,508 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the bottom 20% nationally. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $280 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,300. The area shows high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. 4 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is high.
Is Camillo a good suburb?
Camillo scores a C (43/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, weaker on schools, safety, and community.
Below the state average
4 schools · Bottom 12% in WA
Very walkable
Walkability 84/100 · 29.7 km · 34 min drive to Perth
Median available
Median $650K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 85/100 · Flood 0/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 1/10 · median age 37 · 4,442 residents
Liveability Rating
43 / 100 · Ranked #318 in WAEach bar is Camillo's rank among WA suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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43 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataCamillo's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $650,000, roughly 22% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$650,000
10% below its 3 neighbours (median $725,000)
Based on 111 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 24 days — median across 50 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 73 sales $650K
- 4 bed 33 sales $655K
Units
$534,500
Based on only 4 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Camillo are currently listed at around $699,000 on average. Based on 24 houses listed in the past six months.
$699K
24 houses listed in the last 6 months.
25 of the suburb's 1,616 dwellings (1.5%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Camillo rent for around $650 a week on average, based on 30 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$650/wk
7% below its 3 neighbours (median $700/wk)
30 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
30 rentals advertised against an estimated 425 rented homes (7.1%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $630/wk
- 30 bonds
- +37% since 2023
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. WA's bond data does not record bedrooms or dwelling type, so it covers all rentals together.Change since 2023 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025106 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 28% of its income on the median rent in postcode 6111.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$650/week ($34,000 a year) on a $699,000 median
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Short-Stay Rentals
8 active Airbnb listings: 2 whole homes and 6 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.1% of the suburb's homes.
Airbnb only, as at Jun 2026; other platforms are not included. Active means reviewed in the past 12 months. The share is against private dwellings at the 2021 Census.
Schools
Four schools serve Camillo, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 1,846 students across 3 schools (avg 615)
- • Sectors: 2 Independent, 2 Government
- • ICSEA 898-1060, median 911 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: John Wollaston Anglican Community School (1,206 students)
Primary
Secondary
Combined
Walkability
Camillo is very walkable on foot — at 84/100, most daily errands can be done on foot.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Camillo.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 61.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 29.3 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 22.4 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 16.9 hours
Scheduled service only, based on the 21 October 2026 timetable. Reliability (delays, cancellations) not measured.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Camillo.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 56%
- Premises covered
- 1,996
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Armadale: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this suburb alone — this suburb's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 12 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 2 different deciles — a narrow range, so the average describes the suburb closely.
Camillo is home to about 4,400 residents, with a median age of 37, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $67,000 a year, with unemployment at 10.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
4,442
Median Age
37
Median Household Income
$66,508/yr
Census Median Rent
$280/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,300/mo
Avg Household Size
2.6
Median Personal Income
$31,720/yr
Unemployment Rate
10.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
10.5%
Total Dwellings
1,616
Owner-Occupier Rate
73.7%
Houses
95.5%
Rental Stress
21.9%
Mortgage Stress
23.5%
Work From Home
4.7%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
48 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 3 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 415 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 63.7%
- English Spoken at Home
- 77.6%
- Employment Rate
- 50.4%
- Completed Year 12
- 29.7%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
128 residents (2.9%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 4,147 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
9% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (152 of 1,781).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this suburb against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 611 people work here; 1,781 employed residents live here.
Mostly a place people commute from: 0.3 jobs per working resident. At least 61% of employed residents must work outside the suburb.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $2,388 a year through Armadale based on 2023 figures.
Building Approvals: Armadale
In the year to August 2026, 1,811 new dwellings were approved across Armadale. That mix is 1,765 houses and 46 units. Approvals are up 70.0% on the same period a year earlier.
Climate & Setting
from Jandakot Aero, 11.6 kmModerate rainfall — very hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 32 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 22.5 km
- 922 m to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 745 mm
- 80 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 31.4°C
- 30 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 7.6°C
- 2 frost days ≤ 0°C
Elevation is the ground at the suburb centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
3 facilities within 5 km- 1.7 km
- 3.9 km
- 4.4 kmGas SupplyTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide
EV adoption
In postcode 6111, 172 of 21,014 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.3% (488 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 6111, 5,865 rooftop-solar systems totalling 31.6 MW have been installed since 2001, against 9,497 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 326 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$10,000 for new homes priced up to $800,000.
Cap is $800,000 SOUTH of the 26th parallel (which includes all of metropolitan Perth) and $1,000,000 NORTH of it. We store the southern figure because that is where almost every buyer is; the northern cap is higher, so the stored value never overstates eligibility. The southern cap rose from $750,000 on 7 May 2026 in the 2026-27 Housing Taxation Package. The same package moved the first home owner RATE OF DUTY thresholds, which is a different scheme and lives in the web repo's app/stamp_duty.py.
Mortgage repayments
2 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 6111.
Transfer duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with RevenueWA
The First Home Owner Grant applies to newly built homes only, so it isn't available on an established purchase. A first home buyer building or buying new under $800,000 may qualify for $10,000 — see what qualifies with Department of Finance WA.
At $650,000 this is under the $800,000 First Home Owner Grant cap. A first home buyer may qualify for $10,000 on a newly built home — check eligibility with Department of Finance WA.
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Matt Keogh Australian Labor Party
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Matt Keogh | 65.7% | 34.3% | +2.4 |
| 2022 | Matt Keogh | 65.2% | 34.8% | -9.7 |
| 2019 | Matt Keogh | 55.0% | 45.0% | +2.1 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact suburb's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Tony Buti WA Labor
Next state election: 10 March 2029.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tony Buti ALP | 68.8% |
| 2021 | Tony Buti ALP | 85.5% |
| 2017 | Tony Buti ALP | 75.2% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2023, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this suburb's voters. Results: Western Australian Electoral Commission.
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Every figure above is a suburb average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 4,442 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Camillo
Is Camillo a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Camillo is high (85/100, ranked against other WA suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Camillo?
Camillo has no recorded bushfire history. No mapped flood overlay applies. These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Camillo a good place to live?
Camillo has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (43/100), ranked against other WA suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Camillo?
Camillo, WA had a population of 4,442 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Camillo, WA?
The postcode for Camillo, WA is 6111.
How far is Camillo from Perth?
Camillo is 30 km from Perth CBD by road, about 34 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Camillo?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Camillo was $66,508 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Camillo?
The median advertised rent in Camillo is $650 a week for houses (30 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Camillo?
The median age of residents in Camillo was 37 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Camillo?
There are 4 schools inside the Camillo boundary: 1 at and 2 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Camillo walkable?
Camillo scores 84/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the weather like in Camillo?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Camillo, Jandakot Aero (11.6 km away), summer days average 31.4°C, winter nights 7.6°C, 745 mm of rain a year over 80 rainy days, and 30 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Camillo?
First-home buyers in WA may be eligible for $10,000 towards new homes with a purchase price up to $800,000. The grant is administered by Department of Finance WA; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Camillo belong to?
Camillo sits within the Armadale local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Camillo?
The average residential rates bill through Armadale is $2,388 a year (2023). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Camillo?
Across Armadale, 1,811 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 70.0% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Camillo in?
Camillo sits within the federal Division of Burt, currently held by Matt Keogh (Australian Labor Party).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2023–24
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- Public transport · Oct 2026
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- Short-stay rentals · Jun 2026
- State electorate · 2025
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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