South Fremantle
South Fremantle lies on the coast immediately south of central Fremantle, in the City of Fremantle. It mixes old workers’ cottages, former racing stables and industrial buildings with the South Terrace shops and South Beach.
The housing
The 2021 Census counted 1,705 private dwellings in South Fremantle, and 57.3 per cent of the occupied ones were separate houses. Much of the older housing is within the City of Fremantle’s South Fremantle Heritage Area. The City describes a mix running from small, simple workers’ cottages to larger houses of the wealthy, which typically sit on big lots on the ocean-facing side of the ridges. There are also inter-war and post-war houses in red and later salmon brick, and industrial buildings converted to housing in the late twentieth century. Ocean View at 134 Solomon Street, built in 1887, is one of the places the City lists as contributing to the heritage area.
Shops and cafes
The City of Fremantle lists the South Terrace retail strip among South Fremantle’s highlights. Two old hotels stand on South Terrace: the Seaview Tavern at 282 South Terrace, built in 1898, and the Davilak Hotel at 396 South Terrace, built in 1903 and converted about 1996 to a bar, bottle shop, restaurant and ten apartments. The former Arnott’s Mills and Ware biscuit factory at 330 to 336 South Terrace is also on the heritage area list.
Parks and open space
South Beach, off Ocean Drive, has a swimming beach, a dog beach and a sports court, with Wilson Park behind the foreshore. Most of the remaining Norfolk Island pines and Moreton Bay figs on the reserve were planted in the 1920s, and a statue of C.Y. O’Connor by Tony Jones was placed in the water about 50 metres from the shore in 1999.
Getting around
South Terrace, once the Mandurah Road, was Fremantle’s main southern entrance and runs south through the suburb, with Marine Terrace closer to the water. Fremantle Station, the end of the Fremantle Line, is in central Fremantle to the north, and its February 2026 station map lists more than 20 bus routes.
Education
The City of Fremantle lists no schools in South Fremantle. Fremantle College, a public secondary college at 79 Lefroy Road in neighbouring Beaconsfield, opened in 2018.
The history of South Fremantle
How South Fremantle got its name and how it grew: read our South Fremantle history.
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