East Bunbury WA 6230
East Bunbury is a suburb in Western Australia, 170 km from Perth CBD, around 1 hour 55 minutes by car. Population is 4,019; the median age is 47 and the median household income is $62,036 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the bottom 20% nationally. The suburb grew 2.7% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $300 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,470. East Bunbury is characterised by high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. 2 schools sit within the suburb boundary, and walkability is high.
Is East Bunbury a good suburb?
East Bunbury scores a C (40/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, weaker on safety and community.
Mixed results
2 schools
Very walkable
Walkability 74/100 · 169.8 km · 116 min drive to Perth
Median available
Median $715K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 79/100 · Flood 40/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 47 · 4,019 residents
Liveability Rating
40 / 100 · Ranked #349 in WAEach bar is East Bunbury'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.
How do you rate the liveability in East Bunbury?
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Our score
40 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataEast Bunbury's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $715,000, roughly 14% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$715,000
4% below its 5 neighbours (median $747,500)
Based on 98 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 24 days — median across 42 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 67 sales $700K
- 4 bed 19 sales $840K
Units
$600,000
14% above its 4 neighbours (median $527,500)
Based on 14 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 7 days — median across 5 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 6 sales $590K
- 3 bed 8 sales $616K
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in East Bunbury are currently listed at around $724,000 on average. Based on 16 houses listed in the past six months.
Houses
$724K
16 houses listed in the last 6 months.
Units
$699K
4 units listed in the last 6 months.
20 of the suburb's 1,762 dwellings (1.1%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in East Bunbury rent for around $630 a week on average, based on 22 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$630/wk
9% below its 4 neighbours (median $690/wk)
22 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
22 rentals advertised against an estimated 541 rented homes (4.1%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $600/wk
- 29 bonds
- +33% 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 2025119 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 25% of its income on the median rent in postcode 6230.
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$630/week ($33,000 a year) on a $724,000 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
6 active Airbnb listings: 4 whole homes and 2 rooms. Whole homes are about 0.2% 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 East Bunbury, and the cohort is trailing peer-suburb performance.
- • 1,232 students across 2 schools (avg 616)
- • Sectors: 1 Catholic, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 974-1048, median 1011 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Bunbury Catholic College (954 students)
Primary
Secondary
Walkability
East Bunbury is very walkable on foot — at 74/100, most daily errands can be done on foot. Within the suburb there are 1 supermarket, 4 parks and 5 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside East Bunbury.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 44.0 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 29.8 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 24.9 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 1 min
- Span of service
- 13.8 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 East Bunbury.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 20%
- Premises covered
- 2,514
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
Bunbury: 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 9 small areas inside this suburb and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this suburb rank well above the average and parts well below it.
East Bunbury is home to about 4,000 residents, with a median age of 47, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $62,000 a year, with unemployment at 4.6%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
4,019
Median Age
47
Median Household Income
$62,036/yr
Census Median Rent
$300/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,470/mo
Avg Household Size
2.1
Median Personal Income
$35,308/yr
Unemployment Rate
4.6%
Unoccupied Dwellings
12.4%
Total Dwellings
1,762
Owner-Occupier Rate
69.3%
Houses
77.1%
Rental Stress
25.1%
Mortgage Stress
28.4%
Work From Home
4.6%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
56 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 29 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 515 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 75.7%
- English Spoken at Home
- 86.1%
- Employment Rate
- 53.9%
- Completed Year 12
- 33.4%
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.
80 residents (2.0%) 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.
4.6% of residents (177) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Perth (161).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 3,834 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
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (13 of 1,854).
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 2,083 people work here; 1,854 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (1.1 per resident). At least 11% of the people who work here must live elsewhere.
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 $3,076 a year through Bunbury based on 2023 figures.
Building Approvals: Bunbury
In the year to August 2026, 128 new dwellings were approved across Bunbury. Almost all of the pipeline is detached houses. Approvals are down 16.7% on the same period a year earlier.
Climate & Setting
from Donnybrook, 30.3 kmModerate rainfall — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 10 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 1.2 km
- 2.2 km to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 851 mm
- 90 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 30.9°C
- 21 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 6.7°C
- 1 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
15 facilities within 5 km- 1.8 kmPort and Water Transport Terminal OperationsTop reported: Manganese & compounds · Chromium (III) compounds · Nickel & compounds
- 1.8 kmPort and Water Transport Terminal OperationsTop reported: Copper & compounds · Zinc and compounds · Nickel & compounds
- 1.9 kmOther Non-Metallic Mineral Product ManufacturingTop reported: Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Oxides of Nitrogen · Carbon monoxide
- 2.0 kmPort and Water Transport Terminal OperationsTop reported: Oxides of Nitrogen · Particulate Matter ≤10.0 µm (PM10) · Carbon monoxide
- 2.0 km
EV adoption
In postcode 6230, 189 of 40,512 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.3% (923 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.7%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 6230, 9,348 rooftop-solar systems totalling 52.0 MW have been installed since 2001, against 19,308 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 474 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
1 mortgage broker is registered in this suburb, 10 across postcode 6230.
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 $715,000 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 Ben Small Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Ben Small | 47.8% | 52.2% | +1.9 |
| 2022 | Nola Marino | 45.7% | 54.3% | -10.3 |
| 2019 | Nola Marino | 35.4% | 64.6% | +2.0 |
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 Don Punch WA Labor
Next state election: 10 March 2029.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Don Punch ALP | 57.1% |
| 2021 | Don Punch ALP | 72.5% |
| 2017 | Don Punch ALP | 60.9% |
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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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Common questions about East Bunbury
Is East Bunbury a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in East Bunbury is high (79/100, 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 East Bunbury?
East Bunbury has no recorded bushfire history. Flood overlays cover a moderate share of it (40/100). These are suburb-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is East Bunbury a good place to live?
East Bunbury has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (40/100), 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 East Bunbury?
East Bunbury, WA had a population of 4,019 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for East Bunbury, WA?
The postcode for East Bunbury, WA is 6230.
How far is East Bunbury from Perth?
East Bunbury is 170 km from Perth CBD by road, about 116 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in East Bunbury?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in East Bunbury 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 East Bunbury?
The median advertised rent in East Bunbury is $630 a week for houses (22 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in East Bunbury?
The median age of residents in East Bunbury was 47 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in East Bunbury?
There are 2 schools inside the East Bunbury boundary: 1 at and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is East Bunbury walkable?
East Bunbury scores 74/100 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 East Bunbury?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to East Bunbury, Donnybrook (30.3 km away), summer days average 30.9°C, winter nights 6.7°C, 851 mm of rain a year over 90 rainy days, and 21 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in East Bunbury?
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 East Bunbury belong to?
East Bunbury sits within the Bunbury local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in East Bunbury?
The average residential rates bill through Bunbury is $3,076 a year (2023). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near East Bunbury?
Across Bunbury, 128 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's down 16.7% 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 East Bunbury in?
East Bunbury sits within the federal Division of Forrest, currently held by Ben Small (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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