East Rockingham

East Rockingham lies east of Rockingham in the City of Rockingham. It is mainly industrial land, but along Mandurah Road it holds the district’s oldest settler buildings, grouped as the East Rockingham Heritage Precinct.

Limestone former Chesterfield Inn behind a fence
The former Chesterfield Inn, East Rockingham, May 2026. Photo: Calistemon, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The housing

There are very few houses in East Rockingham. The 2021 Census counted 311 residents. Several historic houses survive on Mandurah Road and Day Road as heritage places.

Shops and cafes

East Rockingham has no shopping centre. The closest large centre is Rockingham Centre on Council Avenue, Rockingham, with Kmart, Target, Woolworths and Coles.

Parks and open space

The East Rockingham Pioneer Cemetery on Mandurah Road, established in 1866, is one of the area’s landmarks, and the City of Rockingham publishes a section map for people tracing family graves.

Getting around

Mandurah Road runs north to south through the suburb. Bus route 548, between Fremantle and Rockingham stations, lists East Rockingham among the suburbs it serves.

What is coming

The City of Rockingham lists the East Rockingham waste to energy facility in the Rockingham Industry Zone as under construction, along with proposed projects in the zone including a hydrogen and ammonia hub, a graphite facility and a high purity alumina facility. The City gives no dates for these.

The history of East Rockingham

How East Rockingham got its name and how it grew: read our East Rockingham history.

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