Bunbury sits roughly 175 km south of Perth on the Western Australian coast, in postcode 6230. The reading is SEIFA decile 3 at IRSAD 940, in the 25th state percentile within Western Australia.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 940 (national mean = 1000).
Decile 3 is a lower-band reading. The 940 IRSAD score sits below the national mean, and the 25th state percentile reflects a regional postcode rather than a metropolitan one. Bunbury is the largest regional centre in South West WA, and the postcode contains a CBD, a coastal frontage, and a mix of residential stock spanning several decades. PropertyRanker uses SEIFA as a primary signal for economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. A decile 3 reading drags the score on those three criteria. What partially balances it for Bunbury is the suburb's role as a regional services hub, where the demand profile is more diversified than in single-industry regional centres. Education, health, port, and tourism all contribute to the local economy. The strategy match in 6230 typically leans Yield or Regional. The Yield strategy's 6% gross-yield anchor is reachable on older detached stock in some Bunbury postcodes, and the Regional strategy's 7% anchor is occasionally meet-able on the more affordable end. The interesting question for any 6230 listing is whether the regional-hub demand profile holds in a broader Perth-cycle slowdown, and that question sits outside the SEIFA reading.
Bunbury WA 6230 is recording strong price momentum, with propertyvalue.com.au (Cotality data) reporting a median house sale price of $780,000, up 15.6% over the past 12 months from 74 sales, and an average vendor discount of -3.9% with an average of 21 days on market. yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au (CoreLogic data to November 2025) corroborates the trend with a median of $787,500 and 9.19% annual growth, while REIWA data to June 2026 points to a median of $961,500 to $973,000 at 14.5-16.5% annual growth across the broader Bunbury area. Supply remains very tight, with htag.com.au reporting City of Bunbury LGA vacancy at 1.04% and stock on market at just 0.26%, well below the balanced-market threshold, supporting a warming to hot market temperature.
Anchor points pulled per refresh from publicly available suburb profiles. Approximate; not a moving average.
City of Bunbury LGA vacancy sits at 1.04% with stock on market at 0.26% and inventory at 2.13 months (well below the 3-month balanced threshold), days on market are short at 21 days, and vendor discounting is a tight -3.9%, all three signals pointing to a hot, supply-constrained market.
Sources: Bunbury WA 6230 House Prices and Property Trends - propertyvalue.com.au (2026-09-01); Bunbury WA 6230 Suburb Profile and Property Report - yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au (2026-02-09); Bunbury Suburb Profile - REIWA (2026-07-29); City of Bunbury WA Property Market and House Prices 2026 - htag.com.au (2026-07-26); Bunbury Property Market Trends 6230 - regionalruralfinance.com.au (2023-02-01) · Refreshed 13 Sep 2026
Bunbury's property story over the past year centres on efforts to unlock housing supply through City-owned land activation and a major greenfield release, alongside a large state-funded hospital redevelopment and a multi-stage waterfront transformation that are reshaping amenity and investment appeal. Council has also moved to tighten short-term rental rules to protect long-term housing stock, while a coastal precinct rezoning could allow higher-density mixed-use development near Back Beach. Together these point to infrastructure-led growth (health and marine/tourism infrastructure) combined with incremental new housing stock rather than a single dominant driver.
Council resolved in May 2026 to progress a long-vacant 2+ hectare City-owned site in South Bunbury (Holywell Street) into a residential estate with about 53 new homes, after geotechnical issues that had blocked development for nearly 25 years were resolved.
Council progresses major housing development at Punchbowl - City of Bunbury (2026-05-19)
The Bunbury Regional Hospital is undergoing what is described as the largest investment in regional health infrastructure in WA's history, expanding emergency, maternity, mental health and theatre capacity; main works are due to finish in early 2028 with services phasing in from mid-2028.
The state government is releasing 55 hectares of zoned land at Usher, near Bunbury, through DevelopmentWA, with Water Corporation committing funding for key infrastructure upgrades; civil works could begin in 2026 with first lots ready by late 2026 or early 2027.
New Bunbury Land Release Set to Unlock 300 Homes in WA's South West (2025-09-04)
Following Ministerial approval and gazettal in March 2026, the City introduced planning rules requiring unhosted short-term rentals to obtain development approval, aimed at limiting the loss of properties from the long-term rental market.
City of Bunbury (land opportunities and housing page) (2026-05-07)
A scheme amendment out for public comment (closing 6 July 2026) proposes rezoning City and adjoining private land on Ocean Drive from Tourism to Mixed Use Commercial with an R80 density code, potentially allowing higher-density residential and mixed-use development in this coastal precinct.
City of Bunbury (land opportunities and housing page) (2026-05-07)
Casuarina Boat Harbour's northern breakwater and marine infrastructure works (part of the state-funded Transforming Bunbury's Waterfront project, with $112.2 million allocated to the current stage) are progressing, while Perth to Bunbury Australind rail services resumed from 29 June 2026 after works, both improving connectivity and lifestyle amenity feeding into the local market.
Upgrading Major Infrastructure In WA | Building for Tomorrow
Updated 4 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 3 shown above gives a listing in Bunbury a softer starting line on economic strength, though often a firmer one on entry-price risk, since less advantaged postcodes usually carry lower 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 tends to make the Yield (6% anchor) and Regional (7% anchor) strategies more reachable, because a lower entry price lifts the gross yield a listing can achieve, while a Growth result usually depends on a specific catalyst such as an infrastructure or renewal pipeline.
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Bunbury's postcode 6230 spans a broad geography. SEIFA cannot tell you about coastal storm-surge overlay, port noise exposure, or which side of the city a listing sits relative to the school catchments. The variance in build vintage across the postcode also matters more than the macro signal, since the suburb has stock dating from the 1950s through to the past few years. Score the listing in PropertyRanker for a verdict that takes those into account.
The SEIFA IRSAD score of 940, sitting below the national mean at the 25th state percentile, drags PropertyRanker scores on three criteria: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. What partially offsets this for 6230 is Bunbury's role as the largest regional centre in South West WA, where education, health, the port, and tourism diversify the demand base beyond a single employer. The data suggests this postcode warrants yield-focused analysis rather than a growth-first framing; score a specific listing on PropertyRanker to see how those three criteria land against the rest of the twelve-point scorecard.
The analysis points to the High Yield strategy (anchored around 6 percent gross yield) and the Regional strategy (anchored around 7 percent) as the most plausible fits for 6230, given the decile 3 SEIFA reading and the regional postcode context. Older detached stock in some parts of Bunbury can reach those yield anchors, though whether any individual listing does depends on the entry price and current rent; run the listing through PropertyRanker for a live figure. The Capital Growth strategy, which targets around 3.5 percent gross yield, assumes a socioeconomic and demand profile that a decile 3 reading does not strongly support here.
The decile 3 SEIFA reading is the primary structural flag, indicating that 6230 sits in the lower quartile of socioeconomic advantage within Western Australia, which constrains rent growth capacity and adds to entry_point_risk in PropertyRanker's scoring. Bunbury's coastal position introduces a confirmed physical hazard: the City of Bunbury has an endorsed Coastal Hazard Risk Management and Adaptation Plan, and government assessments identify coastal inundation as a significant risk for low-lying areas of the townsite, including parts of the CBD. A third risk sits outside the SEIFA reading entirely, which is whether Bunbury's regional-hub demand profile holds if the broader Perth cycle slows, reducing the sea-change and services-sector demand that sustains occupancy.
Yes. Bunbury is the southern terminus of the Transwa Australind service on the South Western line, connecting to Perth in approximately two and a half hours. This regional rail link is a confirmed infrastructure factor that supports Bunbury's status as a services hub rather than an isolated single-industry town, which is relevant context for the economic_strength criterion. PropertyRanker does not score rail access as a standalone criterion, but the hub-level demand diversification it supports is part of the qualitative context the analysis applies to the SEIFA reading.
PropertyRanker runs twelve scoring criteria across a listing, using SEIFA IRSAD as a primary input for three of them: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. For 6230 those three criteria start from a decile 3 baseline, which is a below-average position. The remaining nine criteria draw on listing-level and postcode-level data including gross yield, vacancy indicators, and property characteristics, so two listings in the same postcode can score differently; the only way to see the live composite score for a specific property is to run it through the tool.
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