Madeley is a suburb of

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, the capital city of

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north of Perth's central business district. Its local government area is the

City of Wanneroo The City of Wanneroo is a local government area with city status in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. It is centred approximately north of Perth's central business district and forms part of the northern boundary of the Per ...

. Previously part of Landsdale, much of the suburb was rural in character until the 1990s, with

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a common activity. From 2001 onwards, extensive property development resulted in massive population growth, with the Property Investor Magazine of December 2007 estimating a growth rate of 33.3% per year.

History

Name

Madeley was named after early landowner and former Wanneroo Road Board member George Edward Madeley. Historically, the area was officially unnamed and residents noted their addresses as

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until the locality of Landsdale was gazetted in 1980, extending from

Wanneroo Road Wanneroo Road is a arterial highway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia linking Joondanna and Yokine in the south with Wanneroo and Yanchep in the north. As part of State Route 60, it begins from Charles Street in the inner ...

Alexander Drive Alexander Drive is a major north–south arterial road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, connecting Perth's central business district (CBD) with Edith Cowan University's Mount Lawley campus and the Malaga industrial area, a ...

. In May–June 1996, with the creation of the East Wanneroo Development Area, Cell 6 was identified as a high priority for development, and was divided into western and eastern sections corresponding to modern Madeley and Darch respectively. On 10 September 1997, the

resolved to name the locality Kingsway after the main east-west road running through it, and to name the area east of the proposed Skeit Road as Madeley. The Geographic Names Committee (GNC) approved Madeley, but rejected Kingsway as being too similar to

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. The City, by this stage administered by commissioners, met on 17 February 1998, and decided to use Madeley for the western area, and to honour another settler family in naming the eastern section Darch. On 5 March 1998, the name Darch was approved by the GNC, formally releasing the name Madeley. The City applied for the name Madeley on 28 April 1998, and it was granted at the GNC's meeting on 19 June 1998.City of Wanneroo (28 April 1998), p.83. Item DP118-04/98, "East Wanneroo Nomenclature". 5 March and 19 June dates sourced from Geographic Names Committee.

Geography

The suburb is bounded by

to the west,

Gnangara Road Gnangara Road is an arterial east-west road in Perth, Western Australia. It is located within the northern suburbs of Perth, from Madeley in the west, to Henley Brook in the east. Gnangara Road provides a connection between Great Northern Hig ...

to the north, Hartman Drive to the east and

Hepburn Avenue Hepburn Avenue is an arterial east-west road in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. The road links Sorrento in the west with Malaga and Whiteman in the east. It also connects the residential developments that span its length wit ...

to the south. It contains the Kingsway City shopping centre.

Demographics

As at the 2016 census, the Australian Bureau of Statistics counted 6,084 residents in 2,274 dwellings, the great majority of which were detached houses on single lots.

Politics

As a fairly new suburb, Madeley as yet has no clear political direction, with the

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party winning more than half the booth vote at both the 2004 and 2007 federal elections, but the

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doing the same at the 2005 state election. An emerging trend is a higher vote than the regional average for the

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and Family First. The following figures are for booths in neighbouring Darch which serve both suburbs:

References

{{City of Wanneroo suburbs Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs of the City of Wanneroo