Baldivis sits roughly 45 km south of Perth's CBD, inland from Rockingham, in postcode 6171. The reading is SEIFA decile 6 at IRSAD 995, in the 55th state percentile within Western Australia.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 995 (national mean = 1000).
Decile 6 is a mid-band reading sitting just under the national mean of 1000. Baldivis has been one of Perth's larger growth-corridor postcodes for the past decade, with master-planned estate releases driving population growth and a family-skewed demographic. PropertyRanker uses SEIFA as a primary signal for economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. A decile 6 reading puts Baldivis somewhere near the middle of the model on those three criteria. The structural lift in 6171 sits outside the SEIFA window. Perth's broader cycle, the Mandurah rail line's commuter pull, and the maturity of the Baldivis estate releases all feed into demand_pressure and rental_market_depth criteria rather than into the macro signal. The strategy match for 6171 typically leans Balanced or Growth. The Yield strategy's 6% gross-yield anchor is reachable on a narrow band of older stock and selected unit purchases, but the default fit is the rent-to-price ratio that supports a Balanced strategy. The interesting question for any Baldivis listing is which estate release the property comes from and how the body corporate (where applicable) is structured.
Baldivis recorded a median house price of $801,000 with annual capital growth of 14.43% over the 12 months to April 2026, according to CoreLogic data published by yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au. There were 957 house sales in the same period, with houses averaging just 11 days on market, while propertyvalue.com.au (Cotality) reported an average vendor discount of -3.9% and 1,018 sales at a median of $735,000 up 9.5% annually. The market is characterised by tight stock levels and brisk turnover, with htag.com.au noting a vacancy rate of 1.91% and stock on market of just 0.37%.
Days on market of 11-12 days and a narrow vendor discount of -3.9% point to strong buyer demand, with vacancy sitting in a neutral band at 1.91%, yielding a warming composite.
Sources: Baldivis WA 6171 Suburb Profile and Property Report (2026-04-01); Baldivis House Prices and Property Trends (2026-01-01); Baldivis Property Market and Trends (2026-07-22); Baldivis WA 6171 Property Market and House Prices 2026 (2026-04-01); Baldivis WA Suburb Profile (2025-05-01) · Refreshed 8 Sep 2026
Baldivis remains one of Perth's fastest growing outer suburbs, with the property story here shaped by continued master-planned estate expansion, road network upgrades to keep pace with traffic, and a major electricity network augmentation to support new housing. Rental conditions are tight, and additional local retail and neighbourhood centre development is progressing alongside residential growth. These infrastructure and development drivers, more than any single transaction, are what underpin the suburb's ongoing urbanisation.
A significant development application from Stockland proposes major bulk earthworks, including water management, across a portion of North East Baldivis to prepare land for future urban development, with the site needing to be pre-loaded for 12 to 18 months before building can begin.
North East Baldivis Stage 2 Bulk Earthworks - Have Your Say WA (2026-05-05)
Western Power's regulatory proposal for a new zone substation at Pike Road, Baldivis, to relieve capacity constraints at the existing Waikiki substation and support population growth has been confirmed by the Economic Regulation Authority as meeting regulatory requirements, with the project now moving to business case development.
Capacity Expansion Project, Proposed Baldivis zone substation - Western Power (2026-06-10)
The City of Rockingham confirmed $7 million in funding for an upgrade of the Baldivis Road and Kulija Road intersection alongside freeway widening works, aimed at improving capacity and safety for the growing local traffic volumes.
Kulija Rd/Baldivis Rd Intersection Upgrade and Freeway Widening - City of Rockingham
Baldivis Road between Highbury Boulevard and Furioso Green is being upgraded to a boulevard-style treatment in line with earlier completed sections, designed to improve safety and traffic capacity as the suburb's residential population continues to grow.
Baldivis houses for rent are showing an annual rent growth rate of around 3 to 4.6 percent depending on dwelling type, with weekly rents in the $650 to $680 range, reflecting sustained tenant demand in the suburb's rental market.
The City of Rockingham approved plans for a $14 million neighbourhood shopping centre on Sixty Eight Road featuring two supermarkets, a liquor store and specialty retail, adding to local amenity though traffic concerns around a nearby roundabout were raised during consultation.
Rockingham council approves $14m Parkland Heights Shopping Centre for Baldivis - Sound Telegraph (2023-04-06)
Updated 12 Jul 2026. Items link to their original sources. Compiled by AI from public reporting; verify anything material before relying on it.
PropertyRanker scores any Australian property against 12 criteria across three pillars: Growth, Cashflow, and Risk. SEIFA is a primary signal for economic strength and a supporting one for entry-price risk. It also informs the crime side of hazard risk, though physical overlays like flood, bushfire and coastal exposure, and recorded crime data where available, take priority there. The decile of 6 shown above gives a listing in Baldivis a stronger starting line on economic strength than the national median postcode, and a softer one on entry-price risk, since more advantaged postcodes usually carry higher entry prices.
On top of that, PropertyRanker chooses one of four strategies (Balanced, Growth, Yield, Regional) and applies a per-strategy yield anchor. The anchors are 3.5% for Growth, 5% for Balanced, 6% for Yield, and 7% for Regional. A postcode at this level of relative advantage tends to suit the Growth (3.5% anchor) and Balanced (5% anchor) strategies more readily than Yield (6%) or Regional (7%), because a higher entry price compresses the gross yield a listing can reach without a specific value-add.
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SEIFA is a postcode-level read. The fastest sanity check on any single decile reading is to compare it against the suburbs that surround it.
Master-planned estate stock varies sharply by builder and release date. SEIFA cannot tell you which release a listing comes from, what condition the public realm is in, or how the body corporate has handled the early-life landscaping and infrastructure. Build defects in early-2010s estate stock are a real risk in this postcode, and the title search on any townhouse or duplex purchase deserves close reading. Score the listing in PropertyRanker for a verdict that accounts for these.
A SEIFA IRSAD decile 6 at a raw score of 995 puts Baldivis just under the national mean of 1000, which PropertyRanker treats as a mid-band signal across its economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk criteria. That reading does not flag an obvious structural problem; it reflects a suburb that is neither deeply advantaged nor disadvantaged, with a family-skewed demographic built largely on master-planned estate releases. The structural factors that tend to drive demand in Baldivis, including Perth's broader cycle, Mandurah line access via Warnbro station, and the maturity of its estate releases, sit in separate scoring criteria rather than in the SEIFA macro signal. The data suggests Baldivis warrants investigation rather than dismissal; score the specific listing to see how those criteria combine for that property.
The default fit for postcode 6171 is the Balanced strategy, which targets a gross-yield anchor of around 5 percent, because the suburb's rent-to-price ratio tends to sit in that range rather than at the higher thresholds required for a pure High Yield or Regional strategy. Capital Growth, with its circa 3.5 percent anchor, is also a plausible lens given the population growth corridor Baldivis has occupied over the past decade. The High Yield strategy's 6 percent anchor is reachable on a narrow band of older stock and selected unit purchases, but it should not be assumed as the default; verify by scoring the specific listing for a live yield figure. Regional strategy, which targets around 7 percent, is unlikely to be supported by the suburban price base of southern Perth metro.
Because Baldivis is a growth-corridor suburb built primarily through staged estate releases, a key risk is supply-side competition: new land releases from neighbouring stages can put pressure on resale liquidity and rental demand depth, both of which PropertyRanker scores under its demand_pressure and rental_market_depth criteria. The SEIFA decile 6 reading sits at a mid-band level, which means the economic_strength signal does not provide the reinforcement that higher-decile suburbs offer to those criteria. Body corporate structure is a secondary risk worth verifying for any unit or townhouse purchase, given the volume of strata-titled product that accompanies master-planned estates. None of these factors are disqualifying on their own; they are the variables the tool is designed to surface so investors can verify them at the listing level.
PropertyRanker applies the SEIFA IRSAD reading as a primary input to three of its twelve scoring criteria: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. For Baldivis, a decile 6 score at the 55th state percentile within Western Australia places those three criteria near the middle of the model's range, neither boosting nor dragging the composite score significantly. The remaining nine criteria, covering factors such as demand_pressure, rental_market_depth, and proximity signals like the Mandurah line commuter corridor via Warnbro station, are sourced from separate data sets and are not derived from the SEIFA reading. This means two listings in 6171 can produce materially different composite scores depending on property type, estate release, and local supply conditions.
Yes, and the analysis flags this as the most granular question for any Baldivis listing. Baldivis (6171) spans multiple master-planned releases at different stages of maturity, and a property in a well-established section with completed community infrastructure can score differently on demand_pressure and rental_market_depth than one in a newer fringe release where amenity is still being built out. The City of Rockingham governs the whole suburb, so council-level risk is uniform, but estate-specific factors such as body corporate levies, density, and remaining land supply in adjacent stages are not captured at the postcode level. Running the listing through PropertyRanker rather than relying on the suburb-level SEIFA reading alone is the way to pick up those within-postcode differences.
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