Cannington
Cannington is about 12 kilometres south-east of the Perth CBD in the City of Canning, and takes its name from the Canning River. The City calls it its oldest suburb, and it is now the site of the Canning City Centre, with Westfield Carousel and the City’s administration centre on Albany Highway.
The housing
The 2021 Census counted 3,161 private dwellings in Cannington. Of the occupied ones, 46.2 per cent were separate houses, 36.0 per cent were semi-detached houses, townhouses or similar, and 16.8 per cent were flats or apartments. The City records that Albany Road, the district’s main road, was rebuilt in 1931.
Shops and cafes
Westfield Carousel at 1382 Albany Highway is the main shopping centre, with David Jones, Myer and a HOYTS cinema. It opened in 1972 on the site of the old Cannington School, and it now also covers the corner where the Cecil Hotel stood. Cecil Avenue meets Albany Highway at the Carousel corner, and the City has been rebuilding it as a tree-lined street with room for mixed use.
Parks and open space
Wharf Street Basin on Wharf Street turned an inaccessible stormwater basin into a park with a boardwalk, a footbridge to Cecil Avenue and a mural by Jade Dolman and Brenton See. The former Lake Street drain has been turned into the Lake Street Urban Stream, a linear park. Mason’s Landing on the Canning River marks the site of the old timber mill, and Woodloes Homestead stands at 39 Woodloes Street.
Getting around
Cannington Station is one of five new elevated stations on the inner Armadale Line, which reopened on 9 June 2025. Buses 220 and 930 run along Albany Highway past Westfield Carousel towards Perth, with the 220 continuing to Armadale and the 930 to Thornlie. Route 222 links Cannington Station with Curtin University, and circular routes 224 and 225 run between the station, Carousel, Wharf Street and William Street.
Education
Cannington Community College teaches Kindergarten to Year 10. Its students move on to Sevenoaks Senior College in Cannington, a Years 11 and 12 college that opened at the start of the 2001 school year on the old Cannington Senior High School site.
What is coming
The City of Canning is running a $76 million regeneration program for the Canning City Centre around Carousel and the station. Its stated goals include a pedestrian link from Cannington Station to the river, transit-oriented development near the station, an expanded Westfield Carousel and a Train Station Square, and the City expects the centre to add about 10,000 dwellings for 25,000 new residents. A Southern Link Road, linking Liege Street from Albany Highway to Gerard Street, is listed as a project, with no completion date given.
The history of Cannington
How Cannington got its name and how it grew: read our Cannington history.
Our sales in Cannington
KPR has settled 4 sales in Cannington. Where a home has sold through us more than once, each sale is counted.
- 10 Fletcher Street: 2 sales
- 16 Grey Street: 1 sale
- 24 Burton Street: 1 sale
Thinking of selling in this suburb?
KPR sells right across Perth. For a straight answer on what your property is worth, call the office on 08 6385 6800 or request a market appraisal.
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