Harrisdale is a southeastern suburb of

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 ...

, Western Australia and is one of the western suburbs of the

City of Armadale The City of Armadale is a local government area in the southeastern suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth, about southeast of Perth's central business district. The City covers an area of , much of which is state forest risi ...

. It was gazetted in 2007, and has a population of 9,076 as of the

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. The population of the developing area On 12 April 2008, a joint venture was announced between the

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and Cedar Woods Properties Limited to develop a site in the northwest of the suburb of Harrisdale with an emphasis on

affordable housing Affordable housing is housing which is deemed affordable to those with a household income at or below the median as rated by the national government or a local government by a recognized housing affordability index. Most of the literature on affo ...

and

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. The development, known as Harrisdale Green, commenced construction in July 2010 and will accommodate up to 500 homes. The suburb is bounded by Warton Road to the northwest,

Ranford Road Ranford Road is a major road in the southeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, and services a number of housing estates in Canning Vale and Southern River, as well as forming part of one of the two major routes between the port city of ...

to the northeast, Skeet Road to the southeast and

Nicholson Road Nicholson Road is a major north-south road in the southeastern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Albany Highway in Cannington with the large residential areas of Thornlie and Canning Vale, before leaving the Perth urban area an ...

to the southwest. Carey Baptist College is a co-educational school that occupies a site in Harrisdale. It was established by the Carey Community Baptist Church in 1998 and provides education from

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through to

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. Harrisdale Senior High School is a public high school in Harrisdale that opened in 2017. The Harrisdale Swamp Bushland occupies a significant portion of the suburb's west. It is a

banksia ''Banksia'' is a genus of around 170 species in the plant family Proteaceae. These Australian wildflowers and popular garden plants are easily recognised by their characteristic flower spikes, and fruiting "cones" and heads. ''Banksias'' range i ...

woodland dominated by ''

Banksia attenuata ''Banksia attenuata'', commonly known as the candlestick banksia, slender banksia, or biara to the Noongar people, is a species of plant in the family Proteaceae. Commonly a tree, it reaches high, but it is often a shrub in drier areas high. I ...

'' and ''

Banksia menziesii ''Banksia menziesii'', commonly known as firewood banksia, is a species of flowering plant in the genus ''Banksia''. It is a gnarled tree up to tall, or a lower spreading shrub in the more northern parts of its range. The serrated leaves ar ...

''. The mammal species

Quenda The southern brown bandicoot (''Isoodon obesulus'') is a short-nosed bandicoot, a type of marsupial, found mostly in southern Australia. It is also known as the quenda in South Western Australia (from the Noongar word ''). Taxonomy George Shaw ...

occurs in this area.

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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Armadale Harrisdale, Western Australia {{PerthAU-geo-stub