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Melville

36,315 residential parcels covering 26.6 km².

Highly restricted land

≈89% of Melville’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Melville ranks #17 of 31 councils in Perth, and #47 of 133 capital city councils nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Melville. ABS LGA code 55320. 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 Melville ranks in Perth

Melville ranks #17 of 31 Perth-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Melville: ≈89% · rank #17 of 31

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
  2. 2. Murray≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 15. Mandurah≈89%
  5. 16. Gosnells≈89%
  6. 17. Melville≈89%
  7. 18. Joondalup≈88%
  8. 19. Cockburn≈87%
  9. ⋯
  10. 30. Vincent≈52%
  11. 31. Perth≈2%

Low-density

  1. 1. Mundaring≈94%
  2. 2. East Fremantle≈85%
  3. 3. Melville≈80%
  4. 4. Cambridge≈78%
  5. 5. Claremont≈75%
  6. ⋯
  7. 30. Vincent≈6%
  8. 31. Perth≈2%

Heritage

  1. 1. Fremantle≈51%
  2. 2. East Fremantle≈31%
  3. ⋯
  4. 21. Wanneroo≈0%
  5. 22. Murray≈0%
  6. 23. Melville≈0%
  7. 24. Mandurah≈0%
  8. 25. Victoria Park≈0%
  9. ⋯
  10. 30. Cockburn≈0%
  11. 31. Joondalup≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
  2. 2. Murray≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 15. Mandurah≈90%
  5. 16. Gosnells≈89%
  6. 17. Melville≈89%
  7. 18. Joondalup≈88%
  8. 19. Cockburn≈87%
  9. ⋯
  10. 30. Vincent≈56%
  11. 31. Perth≈17%

Source: Melville ranked against other Perth-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Suburbs in Melville

18 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Melville.

  1. Bateman≈100%
  2. Brentwood (WA)≈100%
  3. Leeming≈100%
  4. Murdoch≈100%
  5. Winthrop≈100%
  6. Melville (WA)≈100%
  7. Alfred Cove≈94%
  8. Attadale≈93%
  9. Mount Pleasant (WA)≈92%
  10. Bull Creek (WA)≈91%
  11. Myaree≈91%
  12. Kardinya≈91%
  13. Bicton≈89%
  14. Palmyra (WA)≈87%
  15. Ardross≈84%
  16. Applecross≈84%
  17. Booragoon≈82%
  18. Willagee≈37%
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Perth context

Melville ranks #17 of 31 councils in Perth for highly restricted residential land.

  1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale ≈99%
  2. Murray ≈99%
  3. Claremont ≈98%
  4. East Fremantle ≈98%
  5. Mundaring ≈97%
  6. Fremantle ≈97%
  7. Kalamunda ≈96%
  8. Wanneroo ≈95%
  9. Bassendean ≈95%
  10. Cambridge ≈94%
  11. Mosman Park ≈92%
  12. Armadale ≈92%
  13. Cottesloe ≈91%
  14. Stirling ≈91%
  15. Mandurah ≈90%
  16. Gosnells ≈89%
  17. Melville ≈89%
  18. Joondalup ≈88%
  19. Cockburn ≈87%
  20. Bayswater ≈87%
  21. Nedlands ≈85%
  22. Canning ≈85%
  23. Belmont ≈83%
  24. Rockingham ≈79%
  25. Victoria Park ≈78%
  26. Swan ≈74%
  27. Kwinana ≈73%
  28. South Perth ≈70%
  29. Subiaco ≈62%
  30. Vincent ≈56%
  31. Perth ≈17%
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Detailed zoning map

Melville’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Melville

  1. Residential<1 km²<0.1%
  2. Residential (R12.5)1 km²3.9%
  3. Residential (R15)2 km²6.6%
  4. Residential (R17.5)1 km²3.7%
  5. Residential (R20)15 km²58.8%
  6. Residential (R25)2 km²7.3%
  7. Urban development<1 km²0.3%
  8. Mixed use (R30)<1 km²<0.1%
  9. Residential (R30)<1 km²0.2%
  10. Residential (R35)<1 km²<0.1%
  11. Centre (R40)<1 km²0.8%
  12. Centre (R50)<1 km²<0.1%
  13. Centre (R-AC0)1 km²3.2%
  14. Mixed use (R40)<1 km²<0.1%
  15. Mixed use (R50)<1 km²0.4%
  16. Mixed use (R-AC0)<1 km²0.2%
  17. Residential (R40)2 km²7.2%
  18. Residential (R50)<1 km²0.8%
  19. Residential (R-AC0)<1 km²0.4%
  20. Centre (R60)<1 km²0.5%
  21. Mixed use (R80)<1 km²<0.1%
  22. Residential (R60)1 km²5.0%
  23. Residential (R80)<1 km²0.2%
  24. Mixed use (R100)<1 km²0.2%
  25. Centre<1 km²0.2%
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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.

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