West Perth is an inner
suburb
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of
Perth
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, the
capital city
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of
Western Australia
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.
Geography
Formerly an exclusive enclave for wealthy merchants and politicians, the West Perth suburb is now part of the inner mixed zone, and has predominantly office blocks which have displaced residential buildings.
The suburb has a relatively high proportion of miners, consultants, and especially medical specialists as compared with the
Perth CBD. Streets such as Colin Street, Ord Street, and
Outram Street have a significant percentage of office and high density residential buildings.
Most retail outlets are located on
Hay Street, which is the main commercial zone for the suburb, and these are focused on serving the office population.
Closer to the CBD, the eastern edge of the suburb features both the Watertown brand outlet complex and the City West complex. This location was home to the Perth Metropolitan Markets from 1929 to 1989, when they moved to
Canning Vale.
Livability
In 2018, West Perth was named as the best place to live in the world by international analytics company SAS.
Notable buildings
Parliament House
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Meeting places of parliament
Australia
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* Parliament House, Adelaide, Parliament of South Australia
* Parliament House, Brisbane, Parliament of Queensland
* P ...
is located overlooking
St Georges Terrace
St Georges Terrace (colloquially known as "The Terrace") is the main street in the city of Perth, Western Australia. It runs parallel to the Swan River and forms the major arterial thoroughfare through the central business district.
Its ...
and
Mitchell Freeway
The Mitchell Freeway is a controlled-access highway, freeway in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, linking Perth (suburb), central Perth with the city of Joondalup. It is the northern section of List of road routes in Western ...
, and is at the centre of the Parliament precinct. Also in the precinct is
Dumas House, the original
Perth Observatory
The Perth Observatory is the name of two astronomical observatory, observatories located in Western Australia (WA). In 1896, the original observatory was founded in West Perth, Western Australia, West Perth on Mount Eliza (Western Australia), ...
, the second location of
Hale School,
Solidarity Park,
Edith Dircksey Cowan Memorial, and the Constitutional Centre of Western Australia.
The Constitutional Centre of Western Australia
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See also
* Greater Perth
Greater Perth is Perth's Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), a geographical area designed to represent the functional extent of Western Australia's (WA) capital city.
The Greater Perth GCCSA does not define the built up edge of the c ...
* List of Perth suburbs
There are more than 350 suburbs and localities (Australia), suburbs in the Perth metropolitan region (colloquially known as Perth, the capital city of Western Australia) The name and boundary of a locality (commonly referred to as a suburb in ...
* Perth metropolitan region
The Perth metropolitan region or the Perth metropolitan area is the administrative area and geographical extent of the Western Australian capital city of Perth and its conurbation.
It generally includes the coastal strip from Two Rocks in the ...
References
External links
West Perth business map
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Suburbs in the City of Vincent
Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia