What the public data says about Crawley: who lives here, what the offence rates are, and where the figures sit against the rest of the state.
Suburb summary
Crawley makes a lot more sense once you remember that it is shaped by the University of Western Australia. The median age is just 24 compared with 38 across WA, households average 2 people, and 70.5% of dwellings are apartments. Another 23.4% are semi-detached homes or townhouses, while separate houses make up only 6.1%. This is very clearly not a conventional family suburb.
That context matters when you read the employment figures. Full-time work is only 29.3% against a middle WA suburb of 56.2%, unemployment is 11.4% against 4.5%, and median weekly family income is $1,976 against $2,112. Taken on their own, those numbers look weak. In Crawley they are largely describing a student population. Plenty of residents are studying rather than working full-time, and those looking for work can still appear in the unemployment figures. Education tells the other half of the story, with 45.4% holding a bachelor degree or higher compared with 23.9% across WA.
Crime is fairly quiet. Overall crime probability is 6.1 offences per 100 residents, below the middle suburb of 7.1. Burglary is the only measure sitting above the middle at 0.43 against 0.32, but it remains below Knome's concern point of 0.66.
Knome would pay close attention to the building here, not just the suburb. Of 1,139 dwellings, 62.9% are rented and only 34.9% are owner occupied. If you are buying to live in Crawley, there is a good chance you will be buying into a renter-heavy complex, so the strata records, by-laws, management and owner-to-renter mix matter enormously. For an investor, rental demand is clearly deep, but student demand behaves differently from a traditional family rental market and should be assessed that way.
Written by Knome, a licensed Perth buyers agency, RA87115. Published 2026.
6.1 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 7.1. Above 12.71 it starts to become a concern.
0.6 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 1.14. Above 2.25 it starts to become a concern.
0.43 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 0.32. Above 0.66 it starts to become a concern.
0.03 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 0.12. Above 0.24 it starts to become a concern.
0.63 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 0.7. Above 1.36 it starts to become a concern.
0.73 per 100 residents. Typical WA suburb 1.28. Above 2.51 it starts to become a concern.
Rates are offences per 100 residents. The typical WA suburb is the middle suburb, so half sit above it. A rate in the highest quarter for the state is where it starts to become a concern. Lower is safer.
Offence counts WA Police 2025 路 Populations ABS Census 2021 路 Typical WA suburb calculated by Knome
Middle WA suburb 56.2%. Below 53.5% it starts to become a concern.
Middle WA suburb 4.5%. Above 5.8% it starts to become a concern.
Middle WA suburb $2,112. Below $1,701 it starts to become a concern.
Middle WA suburb 1.5%. Above 4.6% it starts to become a concern.
Rated figures show where this suburb sits among Western Australian suburbs. Strong is the better half of the state and the far end is the outermost quarter, so the word means the same on every row. The scale always runs low to high, so green is on the right where more is better and on the left where less is.
ABS Census 2021 路 Typical WA suburb calculated by Knome
| Level | Crawley | WA |
|---|---|---|
| Bachelor degree and above | 45.4% | 23.9% |
| Advanced diploma and diploma | 5.8% | 9.3% |
| Certificate III and IV | 4.4% | 17.8% |
| Any post-school qualification | 55.7% | 51.1% |
ABS Census 2021 路 Of people aged 15 and over
Of 1,139 dwellings
Of 1,140 dwellings
Against an address, not a suburb
Four more checks only mean anything against a real address, because the answer changes between two streets and sometimes between two sides of one. They are what the free Red Flag Report runs, on screen, in seconds, without asking for anything.
Whether the property sits in a bushfire prone area on the state's mapping.
Whether the floodplain mapping reaches the block, which the suburb name never tells you.
Distance and exposure to the roads that carry the traffic, street by street.
Where the property sits under the Perth Airport flight paths and noise contours.
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