Madeley

Schools in Madeley iICSEA: school advantage index. 1000 = national avg, higher = more advantaged

Demographics

The median age of 38 is 2.0 years below the national figure, a relatively young profile consistent with the family-heavy housing stock and an average household size of 2.8, which is 0.3 above national. Overseas-born residents reach 39.3%, fully 17.7 points above the national level, making this a strongly multicultural suburb. Ancestry leans Anglo-Celtic, led by English (2,107), Italian (599), Irish (514) and Scottish (454), while the top non-English languages are Gujarati (121 speakers), Mandarin (83) and Macedonian (81). University qualifications at 37.5% run 7.4 points above national. Couples with children form the largest family type at 2,926 households versus 1,246 couples without children, reinforcing the suburb's role as a child-raising base.

Tenure tilts heavily toward mortgaged owners: 52.1% carry a loan, 30.2% own outright and only 17.7% rent, a pattern of recent buyers paying down debt rather than long-held wealth. The stock is overwhelmingly detached at 88.8% separate houses, with semi-detached at 9.5% and almost no apartments, and it is large, as 59.8% of dwellings have four or more bedrooms against 32.4% with three. The $528,000 median is affordable relative to incomes in the 81.5th percentile, and mortgage-to-income at 21.8% with rent-to-income at 20.0% both sit well below the 30% stress line. Affordability has improved over the decade, easing from 55.6% in 2011 to 52.7% in 2021, which helps explain the high mortgage uptake.

Community Profile

Economy & Employment

The workforce skews toward services rather than resources, unusual for WA. Healthcare leads at 15.8% (381 workers), followed by Education at 11.1% (267), Professional/Tech at 10.3% (247) and Construction at 10.1% (243). By occupation, Professionals (801), Clerical and Admin (524) and Managers (501) form the core, consistent with the IEO decile 7 score for education and occupation. Unemployment is low at 3.5% with a full-time rate of 63.4% and participation at 64.9%. SEIFA readings are solid but uneven: IER sits at decile 10 for economic resources, well above the IRSAD score of decile 7, because affordable, mortgage-funded homeownership lifts household resources relative to broader advantage measures.

Transport to Work

Madeley is built around the car: 88.1% of residents drive to work while just 4.5% use public transport and 0.9% walk or cycle, reflecting a low-density layout at 2,348 residents per km2 across the 2.9 km2 area. The suburb scores decile 8 on IRSD for relative disadvantage and decile 10 on IER for economic resources, both above the national midpoint, signalling few residents face deprivation. Only 5.7% of residents (375 people) need daily assistance, a low figure consistent with the younger median age of 38. No schools are recorded inside the boundary in this dataset, so families rely on institutions in neighbouring Kingsway and Wanneroo, a common trade-off for a residential pocket where 59.8% of homes have four or more bedrooms.

Population Forecast

Madeley is an established suburb still expanding quickly: the population grew 23.5% over the past decade and the trend points to about 2.53% annual growth, roughly 393 additional residents a year. Overseas migration is the primary driver at around 217 net arrivals annually, while internal migration runs slightly negative at 48 departures, so growth depends on international inflow rather than relocation from elsewhere in Perth. The trajectory is aging, with the senior share up 4.9 points and the young share down 4.7 points over the decade. Despite the strong headline growth, the gentrification score of 19 classifies the suburb as not gentrifying, because real incomes fell 10.2% over the period, indicating expansion in scale rather than a shift up the wealth ladder.

National Ranking iPercentile rank among ~15,000 AU suburbs. 90% = higher than 90% of suburbs

How Madeley compares to ~15,000 Australian suburbs

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