Highly restricted land
≈99% of Murray’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Murray ranks #2 of 31 councils in Perth, and #6 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Murray. ABS LGA code 56230. 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 Murray ranks in Perth
Murray ranks #2 of 31 Perth-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Murray: ≈99% · rank #2 of 31
2-storey cap
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- 3. Mundaring≈97%
- 4. Kalamunda≈96%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈52%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Low-density
- 1. Mundaring≈94%
- 2. East Fremantle≈85%
- ⋯
- 23. Kwinana≈47%
- 24. Stirling≈46%
- 25. Murray≈25%
- 26. Victoria Park≈24%
- 27. Swan≈23%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈6%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Heritage
- 1. Fremantle≈56%
- 2. East Fremantle≈31%
- ⋯
- 21. Wanneroo≈0%
- 22. Melville≈0%
- 23. Murray≈0%
- 24. Mandurah≈0%
- 25. Victoria Park≈0%
- ⋯
- 30. Cockburn≈0%
- 31. Joondalup≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- 3. Claremont≈98%
- 4. East Fremantle≈98%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈56%
- 31. Perth≈17%
Source: Murray ranked against other Perth-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Murray
8 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Murray.
Perth context
Murray ranks #2 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%
- Gosnells ≈96%
- Wanneroo ≈96%
- Bassendean ≈95%
- Cambridge ≈94%
- Mosman Park ≈93%
- Armadale ≈92%
- Cottesloe ≈91%
- Stirling ≈91%
- Mandurah ≈90%
- 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%