Swan View, Western Australia

Swan View is an eastern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government areas are the City of Swan and the Shire of Mundaring. It is 25 kilometres (16 mi) from Perth in the Perth Hills on the edge of the Darling Scarp, just to the west of the John Forrest National Park, east of Roe Highway and north of the Great Eastern Highway.

Swan View
Perth, Western Australia
The historic Swan View Tunnel
Swan View
Coordinates31.888°S 116.049°E / -31.888; 116.049
Population8,027 (2011 census)[1]
 • Density1,100/km2 (2,848/sq mi)
Postcode(s)6056
Area7.3 km2 (2.8 sq mi)
Location6 km (4 mi) from Midland
LGA(s)
State electorate(s)Midland
Federal Division(s)Pearce
Suburbs around Swan View:
Middle Swan Stratton Jane Brook
Midvale Swan View Hovea
Bellevue Greenmount Darlington

The Brown Park community recreation ground [2] is the location of the long-standing annual Swan View Agricultural Show.[3]

Transport

The railway station of Swan View was the important control point for traffic through and around the Swan View Tunnel until it closed for traffic on 13 February 1966.[4]

Today, Swan View is served by Transperth buses from Midland, operated by the Public Transport Authority, while the Transwa Avonlink/Prospector railway line to Northam and beyond runs along Swan View's western edge.

Geography

Swan View is bounded by the Avonlink/Prospector railway line to the west, the former railway (now part of the Railway Reserves Heritage Trail) to the south, John Forrest National Park to the east, and a line east from Blackadder Creek (in part incorporating O'Connor Road and Murchison Drive) to the north. The suburb is almost entirely residential and parkland.[5]

At the 2011 census, Swan View had a population of 8,027 people living in 3,349 dwellings.[1] About 15% of the population are of Southern or Eastern European origins.

Notes
  1. Australian Bureau of Statistics (31 October 2012). "Swan View (State Suburb)". 2011 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  2. "Greenmount P. & C. Association". The Swan Express. LIV, (32). Western Australia. 13 August 1953. p. 7. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  3. "SWAN VIEW SHOW". The Swan Express. L, (29). Western Australia. 21 July 1949. p. 5. Retrieved 2 February 2021 – via National Library of Australia.CS1 maint: extra punctuation (link)
  4. Watson, Lindsay (1995). The railway history of Midland Junction : commemorating the centenary of Midland Junction, 1895-1995. Swan View, W.A: L " S Drafting in association with the Shire of Swan and the Western Australian Light Railway Preservation Association. ISBN 0-646-24461-2.
  5. 2006 StreetSmart directory, Department of Lands and Surveys, Perth.

References
  • Elliot, Ian (1983). Mundaring - A History of the Shire (2nd ed.). Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-0-9.
  • Spillman, Ken (2003). Life was meant to be here: community and local government in the Shire of Mundaring. Mundaring: Mundaring Shire. ISBN 0-9592776-3-3.
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