Connolly Suburb Profile

Connolly

Connolly adjoins the Joondalup city centre in the City of Joondalup. It was named in 1980 and is laid out around a golf course developed from old quarry sites, now part of Joondalup Resort.

The Joondalup Resort golf course in Connolly, from Moore Drive, 2011
The Joondalup Resort golf course in Connolly, from Moore Drive, 2011. Photo: Outrune, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

The housing

The 2021 Census counted 1,408 private dwellings in Connolly. Of the occupied ones, 86.2 per cent were separate houses and 13.8 per cent were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses, with very few flats. The City’s heritage survey records a golf course being developed at Connolly in the 1980s, and the streets are laid out around it.

Shops and cafes

Lakeside Joondalup, at 420 Joondalup Drive in the neighbouring city centre, has Coles, Woolworths, ALDI, Myer, Big W, Target and a Hoyts cinema among more than 300 stores. Joondalup Resort in Connolly has a restaurant, a cafe and bars, including the Kangaroo Arms.

Parks and open space

Joondalup Resort, at 45 Joondalup Resort Country Club Boulevard, has a 27-hole public golf course made up of the Quarry, Dune and Lake courses, with a floodlit driving range. Connolly Community Centre is one of the City of Joondalup’s community facilities.

Getting around

Bus routes 460, 461 and 462 between Joondalup Station and Whitfords Station list Connolly among the suburbs they serve, as do routes 463 to 466. The timetable for routes 470 to 474, which run from Joondalup Station to Burns Beach, Kinross and Clarkson, also lists Connolly. Joondalup and Whitfords stations are on the Yanchep Line.

Education

Connolly Primary School, on Fairway Circle, teaches Kindergarten to Year 6 and opened in 1991.

The history of Connolly

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

Our sales in Connolly

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  • Huntingdale Crescent: 1 sale

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