Castletown is a north-eastern suburb of Esperance, a town in south-eastern

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. Its

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is the

Shire of Esperance The Shire of Esperance is a local government area in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia, about south of the town of Kalgoorlie and about east-southeast of the state capital, Perth. The Shire covers an area of , and its sea ...

. The suburb was gazetted in 1965.

Geography

Castletown is located northeast of Esperance's

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. It is bounded on the west by Norseman Road, on the north by Stable and Fisheries Roads, and on the east by Goldfields and Ormonde Roads.

Demographics

In the , Castletown had a population of 3,113. Castletown residents had a median age of 34, and the median individual income was $480 per week compared with $454 per week in the Esperance region. The population of Castletown was predominantly Australian-born - 83.5% as at the 2006 census and at the 2006 census, 3.9% of residents identified as

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References

{{Suburbs of Esperance Suburbs of Esperance, Western Australia