Cloverdale is a

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Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

, the

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, east of Perth's CBD in the

City of Belmont The City of Belmont is a local government area in the inner eastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, located about east of Perth's central business district on the south bank of the Swan River. The City covers an are ...

History

The name was from "Cloverdale Park", and "Cloverdale Estate", a subdivision in the area advertised for sale in 1910. It was officially recognised as a suburb name in 1954.

Demography

In the , Cloverdale had a population of 6,457. Cloverdale residents had a median age of 37, a year above the state average, and median individual incomes were below-average for the Perth metropolitan area — $414 per week compared with $513 per week. In the 2006 census, 4.37% of residents identified as

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. The suburb had a Decile 3 socioeconomic rating and a

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index of 934.

Geography

Cloverdale is approximately diamond-shaped, and represents the eastern quarter of Belmont's main residential area. It is bounded by Belmont Avenue to the southwest, Sydenham Street to the northwest, Epsom Avenue to the northeast,

Tonkin Highway Tonkin Highway is an north–south highway and partial freeway in Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth Airport and Kewdale with the city's north-eastern and south-eastern suburbs. As of April 2020, the northern terminus is at the intercha ...

(Route 4) to the east and

Leach Highway Leach Highway is a east-west arterial highway in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, primarily linking Kewdale and Perth Airport with the city of Fremantle. It is allocated State Route 7 and is a dual carriageway for its enti ...

(Route 7) to the southeast.

Abernethy Road Abernethy Road is a long minor arterial road linking Belmont with the Great Eastern Highway Bypass in Hazelmere, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It runs along the eastern boundary of the Perth Airport area. It serves as an alternativ ...

(Route 55) runs northwest to southeast through the suburb.

Land use

The suburb is almost completely residential. However, its boundaries take in a commercial and civic area on the western side. The main feature here is Belmont Forum, a regional shopping centre with 142 stores which first opened in 1974, and a smaller neighbouring centre Belmont Village which contains a Reading Cinema and the Belmont Tavern. Opposite the centre in Faulkner Park is a civic area containing the City of Belmont's council offices as well as a library, museum and a senior citizens centre. Small shops consisting of no more than two or three retailers are dotted through the suburb. Cloverdale contains no industrial areas, although

Perth Airport Perth Airport is an international, domestic and general aviation airport serving Perth, the capital city of Western Australia. It is the fourth busiest airport in Australia measured by passenger movements and falls within the boundaries of ...

is immediately to the east beyond

, and on the other side of

, is the Kewdale industrial area which is one of Perth's largest. "Technicians and trade workers" were the biggest proportion of Cloverdale's workers in the 2006 ABS Census (18.2%); workers, labourers and machinery operators, and drivers were also high on the list.

Facilities

A number of schools, parks and community facilities are located in Cloverdale. The Cloverdale and Belmay state primary schools can be found here, as well as Notre Dame Primary School, a Catholic school. Another school, Whiteside Primary, used to service the eastern part of the suburb but the school was closed in 1997, and the land sold off by the state government to build housing. The nearest high school, to the suburb's northwest, is

Belmont City College Belmont City College is a comprehensive independent public co-educational high school, located in Belmont, east of Perth, Western Australia. Opening in 1957, the school's catchment area covers most of the City of Belmont and the eastern pa ...

. Three community centres are located in Cloverdale, the City of Belmont Youth and Family Centre, Miles Park Community Centre, and Forster Hall, as well as a recreation centre near Belmont Oval. Belmont Oval has facilities for lawn bowls and tennis as well as a soccer pitch and dog exercise area. Gerry Archer Athletic Centre, next to the oval, caters for all athletic events and has a 400-metre grassed running track. Numerous other small parks, most of them named, are scattered through Cloverdale but they are for the most part simply grassed areas with no distinguishing features.

Transport

The suburb is connected to the rest of Perth's metropolitan area by two routes -

, which links to

, Bayswater/Morley, Forrestfield and the

; and Abernethy Road which links to

Great Eastern Highway Great Eastern Highway is a road that links the Western Australian capital of Perth with the city of Kalgoorlie. A key route for road vehicles accessing the eastern Wheatbelt and the Goldfields, it is the western portion of the main road link ...

in the direction of Perth CBD. Cloverdale is served by

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buses operated by

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. A small bus transfer stop at Belmont Forum is host to several bus routes including the 998-999

CircleRoute The CircleRoute is a pair of circular bus routes operated by Transperth through Perth's suburbs. History The CircleRoute was introduced in two stages. On 16 February 1998 the first stage of the CircleRoute commenced operating between Fremantl ...

and various other routes. Routes 39 and 935 travel to Redcliffe Station along various streets while the 270 and 293 routes service Abernethy Road travelling to High Wycombe Station. The 37 bus route travels through between Perth Airport Terminal 1-2 and Oats Street Station on weekdays. Route 284 is a scarcer service proving a connection to

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

, while route 285 provides an early morning connection to the Kewdale Industrial Area. The nearest train stations linked by bus are

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(38 & 284), Oats Street (37, 998 & 999), Redcliffe (39, 293 & 935), Airport Central (37) and

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(270 & 293).

References

{{City of Belmont suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Belmont