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Laverton is in Laverton LGA, WA, postcode 6440, with population 907.
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The local employment base leans toward mining and public admin & safety. Local earnings momentum is not available from the linked ATO series. WA employment is up +1.1% year-on-year (+18K jobs) and +17.0% over five years in the official NERO dataset. Read this as a broader state jobs backdrop combined with local employment mix, not a suburb-only new-jobs count.
WA has 31 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2024-10-02. There is no matched local transport-stop count here, so read the infrastructure backdrop as broader state delivery context only. Read this as a state delivery backdrop, not a suburb-specific project list.
Laverton is a small community in Western Australia within the Laverton local government area (postcode 6440). With a population of 907, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 37. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. WA employment has moved +1.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 31 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are machinery operators & drivers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward mining and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
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Market rent, Schools, Hospitals
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Property prices, Crime, Transport, Population growth
The profile is based on limited but still useful local context. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
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The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Property prices, Transport
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This page stays indexable because Laverton is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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The main gaps on this page are transport stops, crime coverage, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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pop -600 · rent -$285/wk
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Laverton is a small community in Western Australia within the Laverton local government area (postcode 6440). With a population of 907, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 37. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. WA employment has moved +1.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 31 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are machinery operators & drivers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward mining and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
The current median weekly rent is $350. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $413.
Laverton is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 738, which is well below the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital.
Laverton is a small community in Western Australia within the Laverton local government area (postcode 6440). With a population of 907, the suburb has a mix of young professionals and families with a median age of 37. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. WA employment has moved +1.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 31 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 16 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are machinery operators & drivers, technicians & trades, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward mining and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
The current median weekly rent is $350. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $413.
Laverton is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 738, which is well below the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital.