Willetton, WA 6155

Willetton is one of the best suburbs in Perth. It has a great deal to offer, is close to many amenities and is safe and quiet. It is bounded by the Leach Highway to the north, Roe Highway and South Street to the south, Wileri Drive to the west and Karel Avenue to the East

The major benefit of living in Willetton is its location. The suburb is no more that 10 minutes drive from the city thanks to easy access to the freeway at Leach Highway. In addition it is only 15 minutes from Fremantle.

Within 10 minutes drive there are six major shopping areas: Southlands Boulevard (Coles and Woolworths), Riverton Forum (Big W and Woolworths), Bull Creek (Target and Woolworths), Garden City (David Jones and Myer), Cannington and the Carousel and Myaree. Within Willetton there a number of smaller shopping areas with mini-supermarkets, liquor stores and newsagents. Canningvale is also handy. The cinema at Southlands is very handy, seldom crowded and it is usually easy to get a seat.

The light industrial area in Willetton is handy to car repairs and the like.

Willetton is well served with restaurants and take away. In addition to fast food outlets like McDonalds and Red Rooster Willetton boasts Indian, Thai, Hawker, Japanese, Singaporean and Vietmanese. There are a couple of Fish and Chip shops, cafs and taverns. Willetton offers a varied cuisine thanks in part to the large number of Asian and Indian migrants who live in the area and this makes the suburb feel quite cosmopolitan at times.

Willetton Senior High School and the nearby Rossmoyne Senior High School are considered to be two of the best high schools in the state. Willetton has a host of quality primary schools. Willetton Public Library and Rverton Public Library are both excellent.

Willetton is great for fitness, too. As well as the Riverton Leisureplex there are a number of sporting grounds, ovals and sports clubs. Willetton is also criss-crossed with footpaths that connect an abundance of parks - at least 30 within the suburb - making it ideal for young families as well. Willetton is also walking distance from the Canning River and the Canning River Regional Park. These are great places to go for a bike ride.

Willetton feels like a safe suburb and is generally quiet.

Willetton is not without its faults. It doesn't have any North Perth style cafs and certainly doesn't offer anything like an inner-city lifestyle that somewhere like Mt.Lawley might. It is not close to the beach and to get to the beach you need to drive around the Swan River either north to Perth and then west to City Beach or south to Fremantle.

Great neighbours and friendly people

Having lived in Qld and Sydney over the years, we moved to Perth some time ago and settled in Willetton.

The neighbours here are friendly and we always greet when we come across each other.

After 7pm its quiet. Everyone keeps to themselves.

Another plus is that no bogans speeding up and down the street or drunkards shouting profanities.

Houses are old in general but people maintain them well. Lawns are mostly well kept.

Both ends of our street have parks and the kids there are courteous.

Overall nothing to fault other than a 10 mins drive to the nearest train station if you must take a train. Bus stops are everywhere in the neighbourhood and it isnt a problem for our family to get around by public transport should we need to.

Don't trust Dirty Don! Willetton is a dilapidated suburb with mostly old and unmaintained housing and facilities.

Don't be fooled by his gimmicks or sales tactics. He'll say last chance to buy under a million, but the reality is that he's just playing with people's minds and fooling them into investing in an area which is only destined to crash.

Not convenient to the freeway, city, public transport, hospitals or beaches. Becoming more unsafe with kids being bullied and stabbings at the local high school and car parks in recent years.

You'll feel the dated ambience of the area from the 70s and 80s still clearly around with the bare basic and cheaply half-renovated houses with classic brown brick work and overhead high voltage powerlines to match. Maybe this truly is a perfect match for old Dirty Don!

Most of houses are so old and not suitable for living. Very Expensive for old and damaged houses.
Far away from everything. The only thing that make this suberb expensive is high ranking schools with toxic environment.

Old suburb with generally not very well kept houses and gardens. Area Is not very convenient, far from City, freeway, hospitals, beaches. Overpriced for what you are getting. Look elsewhere.

Willetton is a very old grubby area with dirty main roads. Huge high-voltage overhead powerlines line many residential roads in the area. There are sewage wastewater easements behind many houses. Most original 3x1 or 4x1 basic houses still remain today. Overinflated house prices with some dodgy agents in the area using the local 'high school' as single reason for inflated pricing, which may go down. Not close to transport, freeway, hospitals. Public housing still exists here. Avoid!

Willetton is an old suburb with generally outdated mostly basic housing, overhead power lines and the only thing that is currently keeping the values high is the schools. If the schools go down there is nothing really that great about this suburb. If you want to go to Willetton SHS, Bull Creek is a far better option with better amenities, close to the freeway, train station, hospitals are more. Willetton is not really close to any of these. Real Estate agents are over- inflating prices.

This is my 2nd review 5 years on from my last the suburb of Willetton continues with all the good qualities I espoused in my last review friendly people plenty of green parks feels safe great public schools with high academic achievement close to all major shopping good public transport only change from 5 year review land values increasing with many blocks zoned for subdivision and old houses increasingly being demolished and new dwellings being erected on smaller sub divided blocks a great place to live for the rest of your life even if your retired like myself as area is also well serviced with GP surgeries

Moved here over a year ago and previously lived North of the River. Willetton is a lovely family focused suburb with an endless choice of parks. The streets are clean, neighbours nice, land size is still decent sized. Lots of older houses with renovation potential. The majority of school children are pleasant and don’t seem like troublemakers, close to shops. There are plenty of good points we are happy we moved here.