Warnbro is a southern outer 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 ...

, the capital of

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, located on

Warnbro Sound Warnbro Sound, an Indian Ocean embayment, is located on the coast of Western Australia south of Cape Peron, 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Fremantle. It is a semi-circular sound, wide with of shore. The area was surveyed in 1837 by Surveyor ...

within the

City of Rockingham The City of Rockingham is a council and local government area, comprising the south coastal suburbs of the Western Australian capital city of Perth. History Rockingham is located in the southern part of the traditional tribal territory of the ...

. It adjoins

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which combines residential with retail and light-industrial land use. The suburb, which is named after Warnbro Sound, was gazetted on 5 April 1974. The

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Warnbro Fair Shopping Centre includes Woolworths and

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together with a wide range of specialty retailers and fast-food outlets. The suburb has excellent sporting facilities including "Aqua Jetty", a multi-purpose recreation facility with Olympic-sized swimming pools and a large

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nasium. Secondary schools are the

Warnbro Community High School Warnbro Community High School is a public co-educational high day school, located in Warnbro, south of Perth, Western Australia. History The school was established in 1995 in a cluster of demountable buildings at Rockingham Senior High Scho ...

which has about 1,600 students, and

Living Waters Lutheran College The Living Waters Lutheran College is an independent Lutheran school providing a Kindergarten to year 12 education in Warnbro, Western Australia Warnbro is a southern outer suburb of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, located on Warn ...

, one of two

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schools in Western Australia.

Notable residents

*Warnbro is the home of the nineteenth

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, who succeeded to the English title in 2001. *English-born

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actor

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grew up in Warnbro.

Public transport

Warnbro railway station Warnbro railway station is a commuter railway station in Warnbro, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. It is on the Mandurah line, which is part of the Transperth commuter rail network, and is located immediately south-east of the interchang ...

on the Perth-Mandurah line is served by a network of feeder bus services which also link the suburb with Rockingham.

References

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

Notable residents

Public transport

See also

References