Highly restricted land
≈96% of Kalamunda’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Kalamunda ranks #7 of 31 councils in Perth, and #17 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Kalamunda. ABS LGA code 54200. 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 Kalamunda ranks in Perth
Kalamunda ranks #7 of 31 Perth-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Kalamunda: ≈96% · rank #7 of 31
2-storey cap
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- 3. Mundaring≈97%
- 4. Kalamunda≈96%
- 5. Claremont≈96%
- 6. East Fremantle≈96%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈52%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Low-density
- 1. Mundaring≈94%
- 2. East Fremantle≈85%
- ⋯
- 15. Nedlands≈59%
- 16. Gosnells≈59%
- 17. Kalamunda≈58%
- 18. Belmont≈56%
- 19. Canning≈55%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈6%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Heritage
- 1. Fremantle≈51%
- 2. East Fremantle≈31%
- ⋯
- 16. South Perth≈1%
- 17. Rockingham≈1%
- 18. Kalamunda≈0%
- 19. Nedlands≈0%
- 20. Gosnells≈0%
- ⋯
- 30. Cockburn≈0%
- 31. Joondalup≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- ⋯
- 5. Mundaring≈97%
- 6. Fremantle≈97%
- 7. Kalamunda≈96%
- 8. Wanneroo≈95%
- 9. Bassendean≈95%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈56%
- 31. Perth≈17%
Source: Kalamunda ranked against other Perth-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Kalamunda
8 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Kalamunda.
Perth context
Kalamunda ranks #7 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
Kalamunda’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Kalamunda
- Commercial (R10)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential<1 km²0.1%
- Residential (R2.5)<1 km²0.5%
- Residential (R5)9 km²34.7%
- Residential (R10)4 km²13.2%
- Residential (R12.5)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R15)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R17.5)<1 km²0.1%
- Residential (R20)2 km²8.6%
- Residential (R25)<1 km²0.8%
- Residential development<1 km²<0.1%
- Urban development6 km²21.8%
- Urban development (R20)<1 km²<0.1%
- Commercial (R30)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R30)2 km²9.2%
- Special use (R30)<1 km²<0.1%
- Centre (R-AC0)<1 km²1.4%
- Development<1 km²0.4%
- Residential (R40)2 km²7.2%
- Commercial (R60)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R60)<1 km²1.2%
- Centre<1 km²<0.1%
- District centre<1 km²0.4%
- Mixed use<1 km²0.2%
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.