Located in Western Australia, Dudley Park sits 73 km from Perth CBD, around 1 hour by car. The suburb has 6,957 residents, a median age of 53, and a median household income of $62,036 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the bottom 20% nationally. Population grew 11.5% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $310 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,530. The area shows high flood risk and high crime risk. 2 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is low.
Is Dudley Park a good suburb?
Dudley Park scores a D (21/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on transit, safety, and community.
Mixed results
2 schools
Car-dependent
Walkability 15/100 · 73.2 km · 60 min drive to Perth
Median available
Median $731K
High flood risk
Fire 18/100 · Crime 63/100 · Flood 90/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 53 · 6,957 residents
Liveability Rating
21 / 100 · Ranked #515 in WAEach bar is Dudley Park's rank among WA suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
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Our score
21 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataDudley Park's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $731,000, roughly 27% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$731,000
6% below its 5 neighbours (median $775,000)
Based on 168 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 21 days — median across 83 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 8 sales $490K
- 3 bed 65 sales $688K
- 4 bed 85 sales $805K
- 5 bed 8 sales $950K
Units
$515,000
Based on only 9 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 5 sales $400K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Dudley Park are currently listed at around $800,000 on average. Based on 106 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$800K
106 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$534K
8 units listed in the last 6 months.
114 of the suburb's 2,853 dwellings (4.0%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Dudley Park rent for around $660 a week on average, based on 65 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$660/wk
6% above its 5 neighbours (median $625/wk)
65 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
67 rentals advertised against an estimated 753 rented homes (8.9%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $610/wk
- 59 bonds
- +20% 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 2025109 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 28% of its income on the median rent in postcode 6210.
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$660/week ($34,000 a year) on a $800,000 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
37 active Airbnb listings: 35 whole homes and 2 rooms. Whole homes are about 1.0% 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
Two schools serve Dudley Park, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 2,006 students across 2 schools (avg 1,003)
- • Sectors: 1 Government, 1 Catholic
- • ICSEA 904-1030, median 967 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Mandurah Catholic College (1,604 students)
Primary
Combined
Walkability
Dudley Park is very car-dependent on foot — at 15/100, nearly all errands require a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Dudley Park.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 77.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 34.3 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 19.3 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 15.7 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 Dudley Park.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 99%
- Premises covered
- 3,694
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
Mandurah: 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 16 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 6 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Dudley Park is home to about 7,000 residents, with a median age of 53 — noticeably older than the national figure of 38. Median household income runs at $62,000 a year, with unemployment at 7.2%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
6,957
Median Age
53
Median Household Income
$62,036/yr
Census Median Rent
$310/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,530/mo
Avg Household Size
2.2
Median Personal Income
$30,680/yr
Unemployment Rate
7.2%
Unoccupied Dwellings
18.8%
Total Dwellings
2,853
Owner-Occupier Rate
73.6%
Houses
84.5%
Rental Stress
26.0%
Mortgage Stress
29.6%
Work From Home
7.2%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
31 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 13 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 730 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 65.8%
- English Spoken at Home
- 86.7%
- Employment Rate
- 43.6%
- Completed Year 12
- 34.4%
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.
119 residents (1.7%) 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 6,697 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
5% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (130 of 2,641).
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.
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $2,186 a year through Mandurah based on 2023 figures.
Building Approvals: Mandurah
In the year to August 2026, 1,482 new dwellings were approved across Mandurah. That mix is 1,399 houses and 83 units. Approvals are up 19.6% on the same period a year earlier.
Climate & Setting
from Halls Head, 3.4 km- Elevation
- 1 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 4.2 km
- 3.4 km to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- —
- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
- —
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
2 facilities within 5 km- 2.7 km
- 4.0 km
EV adoption
In postcode 6210, 419 of 64,408 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.4% (1,514 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 3.0%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 6210, 22,574 rooftop-solar systems totalling 109.9 MW have been installed since 2001, against 36,136 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 1,000 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
19 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 6210.
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 $731,000 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 Andrew Hastie Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Andrew Hastie | 43.5% | 56.5% | -5.3 |
| 2022 | Andrew Hastie | 46.4% | 53.6% | -8.0 |
| 2019 | Andrew Hastie | 38.5% | 61.5% | +4.8 |
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 Rhys Williams WA Labor
Next state election: 10 March 2029.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Rhys Williams ALP | 59.5% |
| 2021 | David Templeman ALP | 75.2% |
| 2017 | David Templeman ALP | 68.0% |
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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Common questions about Dudley Park
Is Dudley Park a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Dudley Park is moderate (63/100, ranked against other WA suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Dudley Park?
Dudley Park has a low recorded bushfire history (18/100, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history). Flood overlays cover a high share of it (90/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Dudley Park a good place to live?
Dudley Park has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of D (21/100), 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 Dudley Park?
Dudley Park, WA had a population of 6,957 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Dudley Park, WA?
The postcode for Dudley Park, WA is 6210.
How far is Dudley Park from Perth?
Dudley Park is 73 km from Perth CBD by road, about 60 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Dudley Park?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Dudley Park was $62,036 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 Dudley Park?
The median advertised rent in Dudley Park is $660 a week for houses (65 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Dudley Park?
The median age of residents in Dudley Park was 53 at the 2021 ABS Census.
Is Dudley Park at risk of bushfire?
Dudley Park has a low recorded bushfire history (18/100). The score comes from Geoscience Australia's historical bushfire boundaries, with planned burns excluded: the area of recorded fires touching the suburb relative to its size, ranked against every Australian suburb with any fire history. It records where fire has burned, not a bushfire-prone land designation, which your council's planning scheme sets.
How are the schools in Dudley Park?
There are 2 schools inside the Dudley Park boundary: 1 at and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Dudley Park walkable?
Dudley Park scores 15/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very car-dependent. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Dudley Park?
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 Dudley Park belong to?
Dudley Park sits within the Mandurah local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Dudley Park?
The average residential rates bill through Mandurah is $2,186 a year (2023). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Dudley Park?
Across Mandurah, 1,482 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 19.6% 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 Dudley Park in?
Dudley Park sits within the federal Division of Canning, currently held by Andrew Hastie (Liberal).
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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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