Fremantle is a Western Australian suburb located at the mouth of the Swan River, and is situated from the

Perth central business district 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 i ...

. One of the original settlements of the Swan River Colony established in 1829 is within the area known today as this suburb.

Geography

Fremantle is bounded by the Swan River to the north and north-west, the

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to the west, South Street to the south, and the suburbs of

East Fremantle East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the fac ...

and White Gum Valley to the east. The central part of the suburb extends eastwards to include Royal Fremantle Golf Club and a suburban area south of Marmion Street and west of Carrington Street.

Population

According to the 2016 census of population, there were 8,211 people in Fremantle. * Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people made up 1.5% of the population. * 56.0% of people were born in Australia. The most common countries of birth were England 10.4%, New Zealand 2.7%, Italy 2.7% and Ireland 1.2%. * 75.3% of people spoke only English at home. Other languages spoken at home included Italian at 4.1%. * The most common responses for religion were No Religion 45.1% and Catholic 19.9%.

Transport

Fremantle contains the

Fremantle railway station Fremantle railway station is the terminus of Transperth's Fremantle line in Western Australia. History The original Fremantle station opened in Cliff Street on 1 March 1881 as the terminus of the Eastern Railway to Guildford via Perth. As ...

, which serves as both the terminus of the

Fremantle railway line The Fremantle line is a suburban railway and service in Western Australia that connects the central business district (CBD) of Perth with Fremantle. History The railway on which the service runs opened on 1 March 1881 as the first suburban rai ...

and a bus station serving the surrounding region. All services are operated by Swan Transit and

Transdev WA Transdev WA is an Australian bus company operating Transperth bus services under contract to the Public Transport Authority. It is a subsidiary of Transdev Australasia. History On 29 September 1996, Transport Management Group Pty Limited (TMG) ...

as part of the

Transperth Transperth is the brand name of the public transport system serving the city and suburban areas of Perth, the state capital of Western Australia. It is managed by the Public Transport Authority (PTA), a state government organisation. Train op ...

network.

Schools

Fremantle is home to

University of Notre Dame Australia The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is a national Roman Catholic private university with campuses in and in Western Australia and Sydney in New South Wales. The university also has eight clinical schools as part of its school of med ...

's main campus; two annexes of the

Challenger Institute of Technology South Metropolitan TAFE (formerly known as Challenger Institute of Technology or Challenger TAFE) is a Technical and Further Education (TAFE) institution with campuses in Armadale, Bentley, Carlisle, Fremantle, Jandakot, Kwinana, Mandurah, M ...

(formerly Challenger TAFE); a public high school,

John Curtin College of the Arts John Curtin College of the Arts, originally John Curtin High School, is an independent, public co-educational, partially selective high school, located in East Street, , a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The school provides a general and ...

; and a private high school,

CBC Fremantle , motto_translation = Goodness is its own reward , established = , type = Independent secondary school , gender = Boys , religion = Catholicism , denomination = Congregation of Christian Brothers , slogan = , principal = Domenic Burgio ...

. Other schools in the suburb are the historic Fremantle Primary School (known until the 1990s as South Terrace Primary), East Fremantle Primary School, and Lance Holt School (an independent primary school on Henry Street).

References

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{{Authority control Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Fremantle Fremantle