Padbury is a suburb of

Perth Perth () is the list of Australian capital cities, capital city of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth-most-populous city in Australia, with a population of over 2.3 million within Greater Perth . The ...

, Western Australia, located within the

City of Joondalup The City of Joondalup is a Local government areas of Western Australia, local government area in Perth, Western Australia. Its central business district is located in the suburb Joondalup, and it includes the town centres of Hillarys, Western A ...

. Its postcode is 6025. The suburb was named in 1971 after the notable Western Australian settler

Walter Padbury Walter Padbury (22 December 1817 – 18 April 1907) was a British-born Australian pioneer, politician and philanthropist. Early life Padbury was born in Fawler in the English county of Oxfordshire on 22 December 1817 and baptised on 11 Ja ...

. (A street in Padbury is also named after Walter Padbury, ''Walter Padbury Boulevard''.) Several locations in the north section of Padbury bordering Whitfords Avenue take on the name Whitfords. The south east corner of the suburb also goes by the name of Hepburn Heights, and the most eastern part of Padbury is often called Pinnaroo Heights. Padburys population in 2021 was 8,626.

Education

Padbury contained one high school,

Padbury Senior High School Padbury Senior High School was a government, co-educational, secondary day school located in the Perth suburb of Padbury, Western Australia. It was administered by the Western Australian Department of Education and had a final enrolment of 15 ...

, which closed in 2011, and four primary schools: Padbury Primary School, Bambara Primary School, South Padbury Primary School and Padbury Catholic Primary School.

References

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