Meadow Springs WA 6210
Located in Western Australia, Meadow Springs sits 72 km from Perth CBD, around 58 minutes by car. The suburb has 9,160 residents, a median age of 38, and a median household income of $86,008 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the lower-middle tier nationally. Population grew 11.8% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $350 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,733. The area shows no recorded bushfire exposure and no recorded flood exposure. Of 5 schools within the suburb boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Meadow Springs a good suburb?
Meadow Springs scores a B (58/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit.
Mixed results
5 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 68/100 · 72.5 km · 58 min drive to Perth
Median available
Median $810K
Moderate crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 48/100 · Flood 0/100
Below-average income
SEIFA decile 4/10 · median age 38 · 9,160 residents
Liveability Rating
58 / 100 · Ranked #184 in WAEach bar is Meadow Springs's rank among WA suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better).
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58 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataMeadow Springs's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $810,000, roughly 14% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$810,000
21% above its 6 neighbours (median $669,000)
Based on 165 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 25 days — median across 102 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 3 bed 41 sales $796K
- 4 bed 113 sales $817K
- 5 bed 7 sales $928K
Units
$535,000
Based on only 4 sales — small sample, take as indicative.
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Meadow Springs are currently listed at around $849,000 on average. Based on 100 houses listed in the past six months.
$849K
100 houses listed in the last 6 months.
100 of the suburb's 3,201 dwellings (3.1%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Meadow Springs rent for around $680 a week on average, based on 71 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$680/wk
In line with its 5 neighbours (median $680/wk)
71 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
72 rentals advertised against an estimated 842 rented homes (8.6%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Jul–Sep 2026- All rentals
- $680/wk
- 57 bonds
- +18% 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$680/week ($35,000 a year) on a $849,000 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
4 active Airbnb listings: 4 whole homes and 0 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
Five schools serve Meadow Springs, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Oakwood Primary School leads the pack.
- • 3,491 students across 5 schools (avg 698)
- • Sectors: 3 Government, 1 Catholic, 1 Independent
- • ICSEA 964-1072, median 1012 (around the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Frederick Irwin Anglican School (1,682 students)
Primary
Combined
Walkability
Meadow Springs is somewhat walkable on foot — at 68/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car.
Public transport
Weekday and weekend service frequency across every stop inside Meadow Springs.
- Peak (7-9am + 5-7pm)
- 133.8 arrivals/hr
- Off-peak weekday
- 84.6 arrivals/hr
- Saturday
- 34.9 arrivals/hr
- Median peak wait
- 0 min
- Span of service
- 18.9 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 Meadow Springs.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 98%
- Premises covered
- 3,639
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 20 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.
Meadow Springs is home to about 9,200 residents, with a median age of 38, broadly in line with the national figure. Median household income runs at $86,000 a year, with unemployment at 5.3%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
9,160
Median Age
38
Median Household Income
$86,008/yr
Census Median Rent
$350/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,733/mo
Avg Household Size
2.7
Median Personal Income
$37,076/yr
Unemployment Rate
5.3%
Unoccupied Dwellings
8.5%
Total Dwellings
3,201
Owner-Occupier Rate
73.7%
Houses
87.6%
Rental Stress
21.2%
Mortgage Stress
24.2%
Work From Home
7.1%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
24 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 30 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 776 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 62.6%
- English Spoken at Home
- 84.0%
- Employment Rate
- 55%
- Completed Year 12
- 37.4%
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.
269 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 8,506 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
6% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (229 of 3,931).
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, 6.8 km- Elevation
- 7 m
- above sea level, at the suburb centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 1.2 km
- 3.2 km to a named beach
- Near high-voltage lines
- 0.7% of addresses
- 28 within 100 m of an overhead line of 110 kV or more
- Annual rainfall
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- Summer max (Jan)
- —
- Winter min (Jul)
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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- 1.5 km
- 4.6 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
4 mortgage brokers are registered in this suburb, 19 across 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 $810,000 this is $10,000 above 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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- 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 Meadow Springs
Is Meadow Springs a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Meadow Springs is moderate (48/100, ranked against other WA suburbs on offences per resident).
What natural hazards affect Meadow Springs?
Meadow Springs 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 Meadow Springs a good place to live?
Meadow Springs has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of B (58/100), 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 Meadow Springs?
Meadow Springs, WA had a population of 9,160 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Meadow Springs, WA?
The postcode for Meadow Springs, WA is 6210.
How far is Meadow Springs from Perth?
Meadow Springs is 72 km from Perth CBD by road, about 58 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Meadow Springs?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Meadow Springs was $86,008 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 Meadow Springs?
The median advertised rent in Meadow Springs is $680 a week for houses (71 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Meadow Springs?
The median age of residents in Meadow Springs was 38 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Meadow Springs?
There are 5 schools inside the Meadow Springs boundary: 1 above, 2 at, and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Meadow Springs walkable?
Meadow Springs scores 68/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it somewhat walkable. 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 Meadow Springs?
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 Meadow Springs belong to?
Meadow Springs sits within the Mandurah local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Meadow Springs?
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 Meadow Springs?
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 Meadow Springs in?
Meadow Springs 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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