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ABS 2021 Census · Updated 21 May 2026
Daglish is an inner-city suburb of Perth, Australia, with a population of approximately 1,551, making it a boutique locality. Located 5 km from the Perth CBD, Daglish is a inner city area in Western Australia. The median household income is $110,968 per year.
Daglish benefits from a high-income resident base, supporting premium property pricing. Its proximity to the CBD adds a strong location premium.
Official Australia Post postcode for Daglish. A postcode may cover multiple suburbs.
Australia Post Postcode Finder →Usual resident population at the most recent census.
Weekly median rent for occupied homes. Live rental data integration coming soon.
Annual median household income (before tax) across all households.
Straight-line distance from the suburb centroid to the nearest capital city CBD. Actual driving distance will be longer.
Estimated 1 school within or near this suburb.
Find schools near Daglish on My School →Estimated 1 park and green spaces near this suburb.
Monthly median mortgage repayment for households currently paying off a mortgage.
Proportion of separate houses versus units, townhouses, and other home types. Useful for investors assessing rental demand mix.
Daglish is a smaller community of 1,551 — about 28% of the Western Australia suburb median (5,605) — so investors should factor in the narrower buyer pool and longer average time-on-market. Households here earn $110,968/year on average — 11% above the WA suburb median of $99,736 — a modest premium that supports resilient owner-occupier demand. Weekly rent of $295 covers just 46% of the median $2,800/month mortgage repayment, leaving a $1,522/month gap — investors should only pursue this suburb with a clear capital-growth thesis and sufficient external income to fund the shortfall. At 5 km from the Perth CBD, Daglish sits inside the high-demand inner ring — properties here compete directly with the city's employment, transport and amenity networks. Only 54% of dwellings are separate houses (vs 79% state median), so this is a unit-heavy market where body-corporate decisions and strata supply meaningfully shape investor returns.
How Daglish stacks up against the median of all Western Australia suburbs in our dataset. Positive values mean Daglish sits above the state median; negative means below.
| Metric | Daglish | WA median | Δ vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 1,551 | 5,605 | -72% |
| Median household income | $110,968/yr | $99,736/yr | +11% |
| Median rent (weekly) | $295 | $350 | -16% |
| Median mortgage (monthly) | $2,800 | $1,902 | +47% |
| Distance to CBD | 5 km | 20 km | -75% |
| Separate houses | 54% | 79% | -25pp |
Pre-inspection briefing for Daglish — every item is derived from public datasets, with full citations in our data sources page.
Limited buy-and-hold upside: a small population of 1,551 means liquidity is thin and capital growth tends to lag the wider Western Australia market over full cycles.
Weak cash flow: $295/week rent covers only 46% of the $2,800/month median mortgage — a $1,522/month gap that must be funded from other income. This suburb is a capital-growth play, not a yield play.
Only 54% of dwellings are separate houses (vs 79% WA median) — this is a unit and townhouse market, where cosmetic flips struggle against body-corporate restrictions, thinner after-reno uplift and competing new supply.
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Create free account →Capital-growth expectations for Daglish are modest for 2026 — incomes 11% above the WA median of $99,736 and a population of 1,551 suggest gains will lag headline metro markets. Rental coverage runs at ~46% of the typical mortgage ($1,278/month rent vs $2,800/month repayment), meaning investors will rely on capital growth rather than yield. The EquitySight investment score of 75/100 places Daglish in the upper-middle tier of Australian suburbs we profile, and overall investor sentiment is constructive heading into the second half of 2026.
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Daglish scores 75/100 on our EquitySight investment framework — a good rating. That score is driven by a population of 1,551, median household income of $110,968/year and median weekly rent of $295. Whether it fits your portfolio depends on whether you are targeting cash flow, capital growth, or a value-add renovation — all three are scored with suburb-specific numbers elsewhere on this page.
The main demand drivers in Daglish are proximity to Perth (5 km), an above-state-median household income of $110,968/year, a dwelling mix that is 54% separate houses, roughly 1 schools and 1 parks within the catchment. Together these shape both owner-occupier and tenant demand and are the factors we weight most heavily in the suburb's investment score.
Daglish has a usual resident population of approximately 1,551, compared with a Western Australia suburb median of 5,605 — placing it in the lower half of the state's suburbs by size. Population is the clearest proxy for market depth: more residents mean more transactions and typically a shorter average days-on-market on resale.
Daglish sits 5 km straight-line from the Perth CBD. This is inner-ring territory — pricing competes directly with established Perth employment nodes.
The most recent census recorded a median weekly rent of $295 in Daglish, equating to approximately $15,340/year in gross rental income (state median $350/week). Market rents have typically drifted above the recorded figure — verify against current listings on realestate.com.au and Domain before making an offer.
The median monthly mortgage repayment in Daglish is $2,800, or approximately $33,600/year (vs $1,902/month state median). Stress-test your own borrowing at rates 1–2 percentage points above today's to make sure you can still service the loan through an RBA tightening cycle.
A median weekly rent of $295 works out to $1,278/month, covering 46% of the median mortgage repayment of $2,800/month. That leaves a $1,522/month shortfall (around $18,264/year before tax benefits), so a typical owner-occupier-priced property here is negatively geared. Actual cash flow depends on your deposit, loan terms, ownership costs and marginal tax rate — run the full numbers in our rental yield calculator.
The main risks are a thin buyer pool (1,551 residents), interest-rate sensitivity on the $2,800 median mortgage, the broader Western Australia market cycle. Each of these is covered in the Risk Factors section above with suburb-specific numbers rather than generic warnings.
Every number on this page comes from the ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Australia Post postcode reference data, and OpenStreetMap amenity tiles. The investment score, strategy verdicts, and comparison table are computed deterministically from those inputs — no opinion, no estimation. See our full methodology and the data sources and licences for the formulas we use.