Lake Clifton WA 6215
464 addresses · 29 streets
Canning Electorate › Waroona LGA › Lake Clifton · 96 km from Perth
Living Here
Lake Clifton is a suburb of Western Australia, home to about 759 people, with a median age of 42. The typical household earns around $1,724 a week, with median rent near $250 a week. Most homes are houses. About 90% of households own their home and 7% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Waroona statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Lake Clifton itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 place to stay
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: 34.1% 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 | 34.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 52.8% |
Demographics
Unemployment 5.6% · Labour-force participation 57.6%
Population by age in Lake Clifton
| 0-4 | 28 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 104 |
| 15-19 | 57 |
| 20-24 | 35 |
| 25-34 | 55 |
| 35-44 | 116 |
| 45-54 | 119 |
| 55-64 | 119 |
| 65-74 | 85 |
| 75-84 | 30 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Lake Clifton
| House | 237 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 9 |
Households by weekly income in Lake Clifton
| <$650 | 45 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 57 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 58 |
| $3,000+ | 55 |
Top ancestries in Lake Clifton
| Australian | 329 |
|---|---|
| English | 308 |
| Scottish | 80 |
| Irish | 68 |
| Ancestry NS | 62 |
| Italian | 40 |
Housing tenure in Lake Clifton
| Owned | 86 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 140 |
| Rented | 18 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Lake Clifton
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 45 |
| 2 | 93 |
| 3 | 46 |
| 4+ | 55 |
Commute to work in Lake Clifton
| Car | 204 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 13 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 29 |
Top countries of birth in Lake Clifton
| England | 62 |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | 36 |
| South Africa | 16 |
| Germany | 10 |
| Scotland | 8 |
| Italy | 4 |
Languages used at home in Lake Clifton
| German | 9 |
|---|---|
| Italian | 6 |
| Afrikaans | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
4,754 bird observations recorded near Lake Clifton — most often seen:
- Red-necked Stint (473)
- Australian Shelduck (337)
- Western Hooded Dotterel (280)
- Caspian Tern (264)
- Red-capped Plover (241)
- Common Greenshank (213)
- Crested Tern (192)
- South-western Grey Fantail (186)
- Twenty-eight Parrot (186)
- Short-billed Black-cockatoo (180)
- Southern Inland Thornbill (177)
- Western Australian Raven (171)
- South-western Australian Magpie (136)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Lake Clifton
- Western Splendid Fairy-wren (122)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (119)
- Black Swan (117)
- Curlew Sandpiper (116)
- South-west Western Gerygone (115)
- Osprey (113)
- South Australian Golden Whistler (113)
- Western Galah (105)
- Pacific Black Duck (97)
- White-fronted Chat (95)
- Eyre Peninsula Yellow Robin (94)
- Western Welcome Swallow (92)
- Western Red Wattlebird (89)
- South-western Spotted Scrubwren (87)
- Western Striated Pardalote (87)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (79)
- Australian Raven (78)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Lake Clifton:
- Herron (5.9 km)
- Preston Beach (8.9 km)
- Birchmont (10.7 km)
- West Coolup (11.2 km)
- Bouvard (14 km)
- Nirimba (17 km)
- Coolup (17.7 km)
- Point Grey (19.4 km)
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Streets
- Armstrong Hills Drive (20)
- Blackbrim Entrance (6)
- Corker Vale (8)
- Coronation Road (2)
- Dods Retreat (5)
- Flathead Vista (14)
- Forrest Highway (1)
- Gaston Crescent (21)
- Haub Road (14)
- Holmes Road (9)
- Johnson Street (1)
- Knox Road (5)
- Lake Clifton Road (10)
- Newnham Road (39)
- Old Coast Road (63)
- Peppermint Drive (16)
- Peppermint Grove Road (2)
- Pitman Road (3)
- Rakali Drive (18)
- Ramahan Rise (9)
- Seery Court (5)
- Sharee Close (12)
- Southern Estuary Road (65)
- Stacey Rise (27)
- Teakwood Close (8)
- Thompson Crescent (28)
- Tognela Court (4)
- Tuart Grove Avenue (37)
- Willy Wagtail Close (12)
