Yangebup, WA 6164

A convenient location, great family life, fantastic for kids

This beautiful established suburb offers large blocks, quality built homes and is perfectly positioned between the freeway and the beach. There are three primary schools, a secondary school and a fantastic Montessori Early Learning Center. Yangebup also has two local shopping hubs and lots of public transport accessible taking you to Cockburn Train Station, Fremantle or Perth.

Thnnks to the wide green corridor of parks through the middle of the suburb and the emphasis on trees, this is a quiet, generally hassle-free area. What issues there might be are usually due to the edges of the area (some cement dust work complaints, a bit of train noise, the occasional local nuisance who is reported to CoSafe quick smart). Prices for houses in the area are rising, but do range from the millions in the hill rise and a little less in the older, valley-area region. Good range of schools, thankfully well supplied due to local small shops and a highly active community group online and in council who are proactive when it comes to environmental or social threats. Will absolutely raise in profile over time (despite having a name that makes people go "....where?")!

It's all about which PART of Yangebup you're in!
If you're nearer the hill-area ('new Yangebup' - the rather beautiful area including the streets of Spearwood Avenue or in the dip around Cockburn CRC, with some 2000-year-era houses pushing the million plus mark for their small-lawn mansion styles)? Then yes, the lack of wind-shield means that you'll likely get nice views of the seaside and a great sunrise if you look to the east... but the south-east wind will blow lime dust from the nearby cement works. At least you have Beeliar acting as the main landfall for that dust (sorry Beeliar!). It's been a big issue and a community concern for a while now.
'Older Yangebup' is on the west side of Spearwood Avenue is protected from that windfall, but that area is nearer to the lakes and midges do arise despite the reported cleaning that they do. It's quiet. *Very* quiet. The occasional dirt motorbike that zips across the expansive parks with little concern for their safety are reported fast and often wipe themselves out faster. The population is aging, the neighbourhood watch is fairly well organised and there's a nice effort from the local politicians to work on improving the community spirit, even if there's little in the budget to make the shops better (in saying that, the Chinese restaurant is a hidden gem and the shops are all working hard to make themselves viable in the face of amazing new developments, including proposed cinemas and the upgraded massive gym only a five min trip east to Cockburn central).
In short, there's issues. But this is a diamond in the rough.

Live in what seems like a convenient location close to the beach by car and you will become seriously disillusioned within the first week. It's full of the most disadvantaged people. This suburb is no different than Medina, Leda Callista, Rockingham etc. Avoid at all costs, it's a trap.

I have to totally agree with last review. We have lived here since 2001 and thought of moving and few year ago but couldn’t find another suburb that has so much to offer with block size privacy and being so centrally located.
Our neighbors are fantastic and have NEVER had any trouble whatsoever in 17 years it is a very quiet safe suburb. Our only gripe is that the Bibra Lake industrial area has grown and sometimes noise is carried by the prevailing wind, but this is not a common occurrence.

Have lived here now for 14 years. Great location to get on the freeway quickly, short drive to freo, cockburn and shops. Have friends who live in Beeliar and they have more issues with kids walking around the streets, homes west residence and breckins. (In fact i’d hate to put up with what my friend does at her house in Beeliar) Have to say, had a few issues 10 years ago but that's it. Have raised 3 kids here and the only trouble i have had is outside the area, for eg son was hit after getting off the bus in Spearwood and a few things have gone on in Freo. When i have people call in they always remark on how little traffic there is. As for dust… what a load of BULL DUST! There is no dust and i believe the only people who have problems with midges are the ones living beside the lake but they have sprayed the lake last few years and that should not be an issue any more. (I don't live near it so its was never an issue for me) there was a strange smell on the weekends when we first moved in and that turned out to be the soil and sand business burning stuff but they have stopped doing that now. I have to agree that once or twice a year there is a rubber electrical smell and that is only when there is not much wind. (Fremantle's live stock ships smell is 100 times worse and they are lucky enough to get that smell a few times a month, yuck!) I personally dont like the house im living in but thats to do with my tastes but love the area and what it has to offer

We moved here to Sandpiper Loop ten years ago to get into our first home and have stayed ever since. We had a modest budget and needed somewhere near the freeway but wanted to be close to the beach and near private schooling. A small ask but we found it!
We did a thorough drive around streets and at all times of the day to see where the quiet spots were. Our street is very friendly with a mix of retirees and young families and we feel very safe in the area.
We are walking distance to primary school and love having the parks and local shops nearby if we can't get up to Cockburn Central. We love the beach and Coogee has a wonderful surf club and new facilities built recently. Looking forward to the new aquatic centre being built next year in Cockburn. South Lakes pools nearby are okay but need an update. Very good value considering other areas nearby are substantially more in price with smaller blocks.

Ok, so it was always going to be a culture shock to move from a 2 bed flat in Subiaco to a 4 bed house in Yangebup, but as a young couple starting out with our first house purchase we had to go where we could get value for money. We found a lovely 4x1 on a quiet street in the old part of Yangebup on a big grassy block for under $450k - barely buys you a one bed flat in Subi.

So 5 months on did we might the right decision? Maybe...

We like our house, it has lots of potential - it does need updating to our tastes, and we'll get there one day with that. Our garden is lovely and it is very peaceful and quiet here, we don't have any traffic noise or "hoons". We don't really use the local shops as they do look quite run down, we nip over to the Beeliar IGA if we want something quickly or down to Gateways in 5 minutes for anything else. Public transport is a bit of a miss really, not frequent enough to make it that useable - so we drive to the station at Cockburn.

Our issues are that we miss the buzz of living closer to the City, being able to walk to the shops/bars/restaurants and it not being a mission of train and imaginary taxi to get back from the station late a night. It's meant one of us has to be designated driver if ever we want to go out on an evening. I'm sure if we fastforward a couple of years to when we have children the area will be perfect, but at the moment we still crave the inner-city!

Well, we've been in our new home for 18 months now and we still love the area (which, as local real estate agents is pretty lucky...lol). There are plenty of parks for kids, the schools seem to have a pretty good reputation (our daughter attends Yangebup Primary and we have no issues), the local shops are friendly (IGA needs a little kick up the ____ sometimes) and we are a short drive to the beach, larger shopping centres & freeway. 10minutes drive to Freo and 20 to the CBD (out of peak time). We're not going anywhere:)