Scott River East is a small, quiet locality in Western Australia within the Nannup local government area (postcode 6275). With a population of 68, the suburb has a mix of families and early-career residents with a median age of 33. Households earn a median income of $85K per year, with an average household size of 3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +2.5% year-on-year at the LGA level. WA employment has moved +2.4% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. WA also had 24 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 12 underway, and 12 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $300 (Census 2021).
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +2.5% year-on-year points to strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.