About Melville

The City of Melville is located 8 kms from the Central Business District of Perth and has an area of 52.72 square kms with 18.1 kms of foreshore. The City encompasses 18 suburbs divided into 6 wards with over 500 km of roads. With a population of approximately 97,000 persons within 36,000 dwellings, the City of Melville is the third largest local government in the metropolitan region.

The resident population has great diversity in ethnic background, income level and educational qualification (see Community Profile on the website for details). For this reason, the City of Melville strives, through its strategic documents and the Community Planning Scheme to provide a balanced mix of housing choice, opportunities for business (small and large) to thrive, improve social cohesion and sense of place and maintain facilities and services for the benefit of residents.

The city has numerous commercial precincts that sustain over 151,544 sqm of retail floorspace within 773 commercial properties. The major commercial centre is ‘Garden City’, Booragoon with six supporting district sized commercial centres located at Canning Bridge, Riseley Street, Melville Plaza, Petra Street, Kardinya Park shopping centre and Bull Creek shopping centre.

The Myaree Mixed Business precinct provides the largest industrial/service commercial area (264,000m2) and provides a diversity of business, retail and industrial functions. A second industrial area is located on the boundary of the Cities of Melville and Fremantle at O’Connor (O’Conner Industrial Area) providing for larger scale manufacturing and traditional industrial uses and includes service commercial and general business uses. The two precincts support over 284 mixed business/commercial properties.

In an environmental capacity, the City of Melville has 210 parks and reserves comprising 600 hectares of public open space and 300 hectares of bushland. Educational resources include significant tertiary facilities (TAFE campus and Murdoch University), 8 secondary schools and 26 primary schools. Health facilities include Saint John of God, Murdoch and Attadale private hospital. A new public hospital (Fiona Stanley) is proposed adjacent to Murdoch University and the new train station at South Street/Kwinana Freeway interchange. The city also supports numerous supplementary health services.

In an operational capacity, the City of Melville provides an extensive range of services (over 90) to its community that include cultural and community programs for youth, seniors and multicultural groups; a wide range of recreational opportunities both passive and active; acts as a vehicle for knowledge and information allowing the community to take part in business and personal development opportunities; provides effective transport infrastructure and promotes alternative transport modes amongst many other functions and services.