Highly restricted land
≈74% of Swan’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Swan ranks #26 of 31 councils in Perth, and #91 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Swan. ABS LGA code 58050. 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 Swan ranks in Perth
Swan ranks #26 of 31 Perth-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Swan: ≈74% · rank #26 of 31
2-storey cap
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- ⋯
- 24. Belmont≈78%
- 25. Victoria Park≈78%
- 26. Swan≈74%
- 27. Kwinana≈70%
- 28. South Perth≈70%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈52%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Low-density
- 1. Mundaring≈94%
- 2. East Fremantle≈85%
- ⋯
- 26. Wanneroo≈26%
- 27. Victoria Park≈24%
- 28. Swan≈23%
- 29. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈17%
- 30. Vincent≈6%
- 31. Perth≈2%
Heritage
- 1. Fremantle≈51%
- 2. East Fremantle≈31%
- ⋯
- 10. Mosman Park≈4%
- 11. Cambridge≈2%
- 12. Swan≈2%
- 13. Bassendean≈2%
- 14. Bayswater≈1%
- ⋯
- 30. Cockburn≈0%
- 31. Joondalup≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Serpentine-Jarrahdale≈99%
- 2. Murray≈99%
- ⋯
- 24. Rockingham≈79%
- 25. Victoria Park≈78%
- 26. Swan≈74%
- 27. Kwinana≈73%
- 28. South Perth≈70%
- ⋯
- 30. Vincent≈56%
- 31. Perth≈17%
Source: Swan ranked against other Perth-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Swan
21 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Swan.
Perth context
Swan ranks #26 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
Swan’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Swan
- Medium and high density residential (R25)——
- Residential<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R2)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential (R2.5)<1 km²1.5%
- Residential (R5)1 km²2.2%
- Residential (R10)<1 km²0.7%
- Residential (R12.5)<1 km²1.1%
- Residential (R15)1 km²2.2%
- Residential (R17.5)1 km²1.9%
- Residential (R20)4 km²12.7%
- Residential (R25)<1 km²0.9%
- Residential development10 km²29.7%
- Residential development (R20)<1 km²<0.1%
- Residential redevelopment<1 km²0.7%
- Residential (R30)<1 km²1.0%
- Residential (R35)4 km²13.9%
- Development4 km²13.4%
- Residential (R40)2 km²5.3%
- Residential (R50)3 km²8.1%
- Midland strategic regional centre (R80)<1 km²0.2%
- Residential (R60)<1 km²1.4%
- Residential (R80)<1 km²1.2%
- Midland strategic regional centre (R100)<1 km²0.1%
- Residential (R100)<1 km²0.4%
- Midland strategic regional centre<1 km²1.2%
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.