Highly restricted land
≈97% of Fremantle’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Fremantle ranks #6 of 31 councils in Perth, and #16 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Fremantle. ABS LGA code 53430. Methodology →
Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.
Where Fremantle ranks in Perth
Fremantle ranks #6 of 31 Perth-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Fremantle: ≈97% · rank #6 of 31
2-storey cap
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- ⋯
- 10. Mosman Park≈92%
- 11. Armadale≈92%
- 12. Fremantle≈91%
- 13. Stirling≈91%
- 14. Cottesloe≈91%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈52%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Low-density
- 1. Mundaring≈94%
- 2. East Fremantle≈85%
- ⋯
- 4. Cambridge≈78%
- 5. Claremont≈75%
- 6. Fremantle≈70%
- 7. Rockingham≈70%
- 8. Armadale≈70%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈6%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Heritage
- 1. Fremantle≈51%
- 2. East Fremantle≈31%
- 3. Claremont≈24%
- ⋯
- 30. Cockburn≈0%
- 31. Joondalup≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- ⋯
- 4. East Fremantle≈98%
- 5. Mundaring≈97%
- 6. Fremantle≈97%
- 7. Kalamunda≈96%
- 8. Wanneroo≈95%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈56%
- 31. Perth≈17%
Source: Fremantle ranked against other Perth-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Fremantle
7 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Fremantle.
Perth context
Fremantle ranks #6 of 31 councils in Perth for highly restricted residential land.
- Serpentine-Jarrahdale ≈99%
- Murray ≈99%
- Claremont ≈98%
- East Fremantle ≈98%
- Mundaring ≈97%
- Fremantle ≈97%
- Kalamunda ≈96%
- Wanneroo ≈95%
- Bassendean ≈95%
- Cambridge ≈94%
- Mosman Park ≈92%
- Armadale ≈92%
- Cottesloe ≈91%
- Stirling ≈91%
- Mandurah ≈90%
- Gosnells ≈89%
- Melville ≈89%
- Joondalup ≈88%
- Cockburn ≈87%
- Bayswater ≈87%
- Nedlands ≈85%
- Canning ≈85%
- Belmont ≈83%
- Rockingham ≈79%
- Victoria Park ≈78%
- Swan ≈74%
- Kwinana ≈73%
- South Perth ≈70%
- Subiaco ≈62%
- Vincent ≈56%
- Perth ≈17%
Detailed zoning map
Fremantle’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Fremantle
- Local centre (R20)<1 km²<0.1%
- Local centre (R25)<1 km²0.1%
- Mixed use (R25)<1 km²3.6%
- Neighbourhood centre (R20)<1 km²0.7%
- Neighbourhood centre (R25)<1 km²1.0%
- Residential<1 km²0.3%
- Residential (R10)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R12.5)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R15)1 km²7.6%
- Residential (R20)1 km²15.8%
- Residential (R25)3 km²41.6%
- Local centre (R30)<1 km²<0.1%
- Mixed use (R30)<1 km²0.9%
- Mixed use (R35)<1 km²1.1%
- Neighbourhood centre (R30)<1 km²0.2%
- Neighbourhood centre (R35)<1 km²0.2%
- Residential (R30)1 km²12.9%
- Residential (R35)<1 km²3.5%
- Mixed use (R40)<1 km²0.2%
- Residential (R40)<1 km²1.6%
- Residential (R50)<1 km²<0.1%
- Commercial (R60)<1 km²0.1%
- Local centre (R60)<1 km²<0.1%
- Mixed use (R60)<1 km²<0.1%
- Mixed use (R80)<1 km²<0.1%
- Neighbourhood centre (R80)<1 km²0.4%
- Residential (R60)<1 km²1.0%
- Residential (R80)<1 km²<0.1%
- Mixed use (R160)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R100)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R160)<1 km²0.2%
- City centre<1 km²5.4%
- Mixed use (R-AC3)<1 km²1.1%
Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.