Cape Arid WA 6452
1 address · 1 street
O'Connor Electorate › Esperance LGA › Cape Arid · 725 km from Perth
Living Here
Cape Arid is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 4 people, with a median age of 57. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week, with median rent near $170 a week. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Esperance Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cape Arid itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 12% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 12.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 49.3% |
Demographics
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
45 bird observations recorded near Cape Arid — most often seen:
- White-fronted Honeyeater (5)
- Silvereye (4)
- Tawny-crowned Honeyeater (4)
- Yellow-plumed Honeyeater (3)
- Eyre Peninsula Yellow Robin (2)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (2)
- Southern Weebill (2)
- Spotted Pardalote (2)
- Weebill (2)
- Western Red Wattlebird (2)
- Yellow-rumped Pardalote (2)
- Brown Honeyeater (1)
- Emu (1)
Show all 26 birds recorded near Cape Arid
- Grey Butcherbird (1)
- Grey Currawong (1)
- New Holland Honeyeater (1)
- Purple-crowned Lorikeet (1)
- Purple-gaped Honeyeater (1)
- Red Wattlebird (1)
- Red-rumped Tit (1)
- South Australian Golden Whistler (1)
- Western Brown Honeyeater (1)
- Western Grey Shrike-thrush (1)
- Western Silvereye (1)
- Western White-eared Honeyeater (1)
- Western Yellow Robin (1)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Merivale Road (1)
