Spearwood
Spearwood sits about 19 km south of the Perth CBD in the City of Cockburn, with Rockingham Road and Hamilton Road running through it. It grew from five acre market gardens into a suburb, and the City of Cockburn’s administration centre and Spearwood Library are on Coleville Crescent.
The housing
The 2021 Census counted 5,018 private dwellings in Spearwood. Of the occupied ones, 73.5 per cent were separate houses, 20.9 per cent were semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses, and 5.4 per cent were flats or apartments. The City of Cockburn’s history records that houses first reached Spearwood north of the railway in the late 1960s, spread further south in the early 1980s, and that the old five acre garden blocks between Rockingham Road and Hamilton Road began to be built on from the mid-1990s. Eliza Ponds, on the former Watsonia factory land on Hamilton Road, was built from 2015.
Shops and cafes
Phoenix Shopping Centre at 254 Rockingham Road has Woolworths, Farmer Jacks, ALDI and Big W, with more than 30 specialty stores. Spearwood Library is at 9 Coleville Crescent, beside the City of Cockburn administration building, and the former Civic Hall on the same site is now the Seniors’ Centre.
Parks and open space
The first garden lots of the 1890s were laid out around what is now called Market Garden Swamp. Manning Park, about 117 hectares around Manning Lake in Hamilton Hill, has walking trails, the Azelia Ley Homestead Museum and the ruins of the Davilak homestead.
Getting around
Spearwood has no passenger station. The old Fremantle to Jandakot railway, now part of the Fremantle to Forrestfield freight line, still crosses Rockingham Road near Mell Road. Bus route 512 runs between Fremantle Station and Murdoch Station with a timed stop at Spearwood Avenue and Hamilton Road.
Education
Spearwood Primary School is at 73 Gerald Street and Newton Primary School, for Kindergarten to Year 6, is at 4 Marvell Avenue.
The history of Spearwood
How Spearwood got its name and how it grew: read our Spearwood history.
Our sales in Spearwood
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- 13 Scales Way: 1 sale
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