Family-friendly ranking · Greater Perth
By the average ICSEA of their schools, among suburbs where families with dependants are at least 40% of households, the ten best Greater Perth suburbs for families are Dalkeith, Claremont, Nedlands, Subiaco, Floreat, Glendalough, Cottesloe, Jolimont, Mount Claremont and City Beach.
Updated 1 October 2026. Medians for 2024. Ranked from 252 Greater Perth suburbs.
The ten, in order
Dalkeith (6009) is about 7 km from the Perth CBD. The one school we hold for the suburb has an ICSEA of 1183 (ACARA), the highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 86% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 4,398 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Claremont (6010) is about 9 km from the Perth CBD. The four schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1177 (ACARA), the 2nd highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 61% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 9,248 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Nedlands (6009) is about 6 km from the Perth CBD. The two schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1177 (ACARA), the 3rd highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 73% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 10,561 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Subiaco (6008) is about 3 km from the Perth CBD. The three schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1176 (ACARA), the 4th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 57% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 9,940 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Floreat (6014) is about 7 km from the Perth CBD. The two schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1171 (ACARA), the 5th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 84% of households. The median house price is $1,945,750 (the ABS statistical-area median for the area that carries its name). 8,621 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Glendalough (6016) is about 5 km from the Perth CBD. The one school we hold for the suburb has an ICSEA of 1168 (ACARA), the 6th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 55% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 2,628 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Cottesloe (6011) is about 10 km from the Perth CBD. The one school we hold for the suburb has an ICSEA of 1164 (ACARA), the 7th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 70% of households. The median house price is $3,422,500 (the ABS statistical-area median for the area that carries its name). 7,750 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Jolimont (6014) is about 5 km from the Perth CBD. The one school we hold for the suburb has an ICSEA of 1164 (ACARA), the 8th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 48% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 1,479 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
Mount Claremont (6010) is about 7 km from the Perth CBD. The four schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1163 (ACARA), the 9th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 74% of households. No house median is published for it yet. 4,999 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
City Beach (6015) is about 9 km from the Perth CBD. The five schools we hold for the suburb average an ICSEA of 1159 (ACARA), the 10th highest in Greater Perth among suburbs where families are at least 40% of households. Families with dependants are 80% of households. The median house price is $2,762,500 (the ABS statistical-area median for the area that carries its name). 6,805 people lived there at the 2021 Census.
| # | Suburb | Avg school ICSEA | Family households | Median house price | Km to CBD | Profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dalkeith 6009 | 1183 | 86% | – | 7 | View profile → |
| 2 | Claremont 6010 | 1177 | 61% | – | 9 | View profile → |
| 3 | Nedlands 6009 | 1177 | 73% | – | 6 | View profile → |
| 4 | Subiaco 6008 | 1176 | 57% | – | 3 | View profile → |
| 5 | Floreat 6014 | 1171 | 84% | $1,945,750 area | 7 | View profile → |
| 6 | Glendalough 6016 | 1168 | 55% | – | 5 | View profile → |
| 7 | Cottesloe 6011 | 1164 | 70% | $3,422,500 area | 10 | View profile → |
| 8 | Jolimont 6014 | 1164 | 48% | – | 5 | View profile → |
| 9 | Mount Claremont 6010 | 1163 | 74% | – | 7 | View profile → |
| 10 | City Beach 6015 | 1159 | 80% | $2,762,500 area | 9 | View profile → |
A dash means the suburb’s own page publishes no figure. “Area” marks an ABS statistical-area median.
Ranks 11 to 15 on the same rule, for a shortlist that runs past the ten.
Common questions
By the average ICSEA of their schools, among Greater Perth suburbs where families with dependants are at least 40% of households, the top three are Dalkeith (ICSEA 1183), Claremont (ICSEA 1177) and Nedlands (ICSEA 1177). ICSEA is ACARA's index of the socio-educational backgrounds of a school's students, published for every Australian school; it is a proxy for resourcing and outcomes, not a measure of teaching, so check the in-catchment school for an address before buying. The ranking is drawn from 252 suburbs.
Three of the ten suburbs on this page have a published median house price, from $1,945,750 in Floreat to $3,422,500 in Cottesloe. Prices for Western Australia are ABS statistical-area (SA2) medians: each is the median for the area that carries the suburb's name. An SA2 can take in surrounding localities, so a figure can differ from sales in the suburb itself. A dash in the table means the suburb's own page publishes no median, because its source is distrusted or it rests on fewer than five recorded sales.
We do not publish a list of suburbs to avoid. This page ranks suburbs for families on measured figures, and a suburb missing from it may simply have no school with an ICSEA we hold, a family share under 40% of households or fewer than 1,000 residents. Each suburb's own page shows its crime figures where the state publishes them and its rents and sales, so check those for the address you are looking at rather than the suburb's reputation.
We do not predict which suburbs will boom, and we hold no growth figure to rank Perth suburbs on: the medians we publish for Western Australia are ABS statistical-area (SA2) medians for 2024, and they come without a 12-month change. A figure beside a suburb here is a median, a rent, a yield, a walk score or a school ICSEA, each measured and sourced, never a forecast. Each suburb's own page shows its published median and says where it comes from.
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