Kwinana Town Centre sits roughly 38 km south of Perth's CBD, on the Cockburn Sound coast, in postcode 6167. The reading is SEIFA decile 3 at IRSAD 926, in the 17th state percentile within Western Australia.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 926 (national mean = 1000).
Decile 3 is a lower-band reading, and the 17th state percentile reflects that. Kwinana's postcode has historically been an industrial and affordability anchor for Perth's southern corridor, with refining and port-related employment shaping both the demographic and the rental demand. 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 offsets the SEIFA drag in 6167 is the rent-to-price ratio. Kwinana has been one of Perth's stronger gross-yield postcodes for as long as Perth has had a cyclical property market, and the structural factors behind that are unchanged. The strategy match for 6167 is Yield, almost exclusively. The Yield strategy's 6% gross-yield anchor is reachable on older detached stock and some unit stock in Kwinana, and the Perth cycle's recent acceleration has lifted growth alongside the yield rather than at its expense. The risk read is that the SEIFA signal is doing real work, the suburb's economic exposure is concentrated in industries that are themselves cyclical, and yield-on-paper does not translate cleanly to yield-net-of-management on lower-decile stock.
According to CoreLogic data published by yourinvestmentpropertymag.com.au (as of May 2026), the median house price in Kwinana Town Centre stands at $690,000 with annual capital growth of 17.95%, and 11 houses sold in the past 12 months with an average of 8 days on market. propertyvalue.com.au (CoreLogic-sourced) separately recorded 19 house sales with a median of $560,000, up 37.4% annually, and an average vendor discount of -16.2%, reflecting a very fast-moving, tightly supplied residential pocket within a predominantly commercial suburb. The suburb's small residential footprint and low transaction volumes mean individual sales can shift medians materially, and data confidence is rated medium by htag.com.au.
Anchor points pulled per refresh from publicly available suburb profiles. Approximate; not a moving average.
Days on market of 7-8 days signals extremely fast turnover, vendor discounting is deeply negative (vendors achieving above asking), and vacancy at 1.47% is stable, combining to a hot overall reading.
Sources: Kwinana Town Centre WA 6167 Suburb Profile & Property Report (2026-05-01); Kwinana Town Centre House Prices & Property Trends (2025-01-01); Kwinana Town Centre WA 6167 Property Market and House Prices 2026 (2026-01-01); Kwinana Town Centre Suburb Profile - REIWA (2026-05-20); Kwinana Town Centre WA 6167 Rent Price History (2023-01-01) · Refreshed 2 Sep 2026
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 Kwinana Town Centre 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.
Read the scoring guide for the full criteria list and how the verdict thresholds work.
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.
Kwinana's industrial belt sits immediately west of the residential postcode, and SEIFA does not measure proximity to industrial emissions, port noise, or HEPA-classified buffer zones. Listings west of the freeway in 6167 have a meaningfully different lived-environment profile from those east of it. Property age, asbestos-era construction prevalence in older stock, and recent rental arrears at the listing level all matter more in this postcode than the macro reading. Score the listing for a verdict that accounts for those.
The SEIFA IRSAD reading of 926 (decile 3, 17th state percentile within WA) places postcode 6167 in the disadvantaged band, and PropertyRanker uses that signal directly in its economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk criteria, dragging all three scores below the metro average. What the data suggests is that 6167 suits a specific type of investor appetite, one oriented toward yield rather than socioeconomic upgrading, and the suburb has historically delivered on that orientation. The SEIFA reading is not a reason to dismiss the postcode; it is a reason to understand precisely which scoring criteria it penalises and to verify that the yield on a specific listing is sufficient to compensate.
The High Yield strategy is the clearest match for Kwinana Town Centre, given its 6 percent gross-yield anchor aligns with what older detached stock in this postcode has historically been capable of reaching. The Capital Growth and Balanced strategies sit at anchors of roughly 3.5 percent and 5 percent respectively, and neither is well supported by a decile 3 SEIFA reading, which signals limited capacity for the kind of socioeconomic uplift that tends to drive sustained capital growth premiums. Score a specific listing on PropertyRanker to see whether the live rent-to-price ratio on that property clears the High Yield threshold, since the Perth cycle's recent movement has shifted individual results meaningfully.
Three risks stand out in the scoring. First, the SEIFA drag on economic_strength reflects that local employment is heavily concentrated in industries tied to the Kwinana Industrial Area, which has historically housed petroleum refineries, minerals processing, chemical plants, and port operations; those industries are themselves cyclical, so rental demand can soften when those sectors contract. Second, proximity to a dense heavy industrial precinct is a genuine hazard_risk input, and investors should verify buffer distances for any specific property. Third, yield-on-paper in lower-decile postcodes tends to erode more than average once vacancy periods, property management costs, and maintenance on older stock are factored in, so net yield requires careful modelling beyond the gross figure.
Kwinana railway station sits on the Mandurah line and is roughly 26 minutes by train from Perth City station, with services running every 10 minutes during peak periods; the station also has a bus interchange connecting routes into the surrounding 6167 suburbs. Transport access is a positive amenity input for tenant demand, particularly for renters commuting north toward central Perth employment nodes. That said, PropertyRanker scores a listing's specific walkability to the station rather than the suburb's access in aggregate, so check the distance from the property address to the Kwinana station interchange when running your score.
PropertyRanker runs twelve scoring criteria across a listing, and for 6167 the SEIFA IRSAD score of 926 feeds directly into three of them: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. The remaining criteria draw on listing-level inputs including the gross yield implied by the asking price and estimated rent, proximity to transport and amenity, and land-use context, which in 6167 includes the adjacency to the Kwinana Industrial Area. Because live rental and price data shifts with the Perth cycle, the most reliable approach is to score the specific listing rather than relying on suburb-level averages.
Paste a real address. Get a defensible verdict across 12 criteria in around three minutes.
Score a property free