Wellard, WA 6170
City Of Kwinana, Western Australia
Good to Know
Wellard, WA 6170 is a high-value house market in the City of Kwinana area, currently positioned as a capital-growth submarket. Located about 36 km south of Perth CBD, Wellard is home to roughly 14,127 adults across 6,789 dwellings and currently records a vacancy rate of 2.67%.
According to HtAG Analytics, Wellard is exhibiting balanced supply and steady demand. Stock on Market sits at 0.45% and Inventory at 2.5 months — around the ~3-month balanced-market threshold — driving +18.1% YoY price growth and +4.0% YoY rent growth.
What the market data is signalling
Wellard shows a strong capital-growth signal: prices are up 18.1% over the last year while rents are rising more modestly at 4.0%, which points to appreciation-led returns rather than yield compression. Supply-side metrics are currently neutral — vacancy is 2.67%, Stock on Market is 0.45% and Inventory sits at 2.5 months — but the elevated building approvals ratio of 8.5% flags a potential future supply headwind that could temper growth if completions accelerate.
To view where Wellard sits in the national context, see the Markets in the Moment (MiM™) heatmap.
Who lives in Wellard — and why it matters for investors
Wellard records an IRSAD of 1019, indicating relative socio-economic advantage that typically supports lower long-term vacancy and more resilient capital gains. The suburb’s renter share of 25.0% is in the neutral band, meaning ownership remains dominant but there’s a stable rental pool to underpin cashflow.
Read our IRSAD Crossover study to understand how socio-economic composition influences volatility and long-cycle growth.
Why suburb-level data matters for Wellard
Council or LGA averages can mask local pockets. Wellard’s own metrics — a typical house price of $869,325, gross yield of 4.0%, Stock on Market of 0.45%, Inventory of 2.5 months and days on market of 27 days — should drive investment decisions for this suburb rather than any aggregated council headline.
See our methodology in LGA vs Suburb research. For a printable breakdown, download the full Wellard data guide.
What's behind the RCS™ score of 82
The HtAG RCS™ bundles three independent dimensions — risk minimisation, capital-growth potential and cashflow resilience — into a single score. An overall score of 82 reflects strong capital-growth signals (high recent price growth and solid demand metrics) tempered by supply risks and stretched affordability (38 years).
Drill into the component drivers to match Wellard to your strategy and learn how the RCS™ is built. When ready, open Wellard in HtAG Copilot.
Forward signals to watch
The vacancy rate — currently 2.67%: sustained vacancies in the balanced band over 12–24 months imply steady rental demand but no immediate rental shortage to push yields sharply higher.
The building approvals ratio — currently 8.5%: this high approvals reading suggests a wave of new supply that could increase inventory and moderate price momentum if many approvals convert to completions.
The Perth cycle phase: a shift in the Perth-wide cycle toward weaker growth would likely cool Wellard’s recent price momentum; conversely, continued city-level expansion would reinforce local capital gains.
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RCS Breakdown
Wellard's RCS™ headline is an overall signal — but it doesn't tell you why. The three sub-scores below reveal whether that score is earned through risk minimisation, capital growth, or cashflow — and which portfolio brief it fits.
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Market Trends
Wellard's headline values — $869K to buy and $668PW to rent, a 3.99% gross yield. Over the past decade, prices have moved 161.14% and rents 80.81% — the Yield series shows whether that gap is widening (price outpacing rent, yield compressing) or closing.
$869K is today. The 10-year trajectory reveals whether that's the top of a run, the start of a new leg, or somewhere mid-cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
$668PW today, with rent growth at (+4.04% YoY) compared to price growth (+18.13%). That spread determines yield is expanding or compressing across the next cycle. Sign up to unlock the entire trend line.
Where is Wellard in its cycle - and is the 3.99% yield holding?
Cycle phase tells you whether you're buying near the bottom (room to run) or top (compression ahead). Yield trajectory tells you whether cashflow is durable or being eroded — the single most important question for a long-hold thesis.
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Area Risks
Property data alone won't flag the structural risks that can erode a long-hold position. Bushfire overlays, flood-zone exposure, and economic concentration sit outside the price feed but determine whether your capital is insurable, defensible, and structurally protected. Unlock to see.
Are there hidden structural risks shaping Wellard's long-hold story?
Beyond the headline price, Wellard carries risk signals a median can't show — hazard exposure from bushfire and flood overlays, and how narrowly local employment leans on a handful of sectors (the concentration the EDI score quantifies). Together these separate insurable, defensible long-holds from those carrying tail-risk that never surfaces in the headline number.
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Supply & Demand
Wellard's headline numbers show where the market is today. The two cards below answer where it's heading. Direction is what separates a buy from a wait.
Is housing supply tightening or building up?
Stock on Market is one number — the trend is what matters. SoM, inventory, building approvals and hold period together reveal whether the market is starving for stock (price pressure up) or quietly building a pipeline (pressure down).
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Is buyer and renter demand heating up or cooling off?
Vacancy is one signal — the real question is whether demand is still building or quietly peaking. Days on market, vacancy, search index and clearance rate are the four pulse-points — when they diverge, they signal a turning point.
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Fundamentals
Wellard can look solid on the surface — but the three layers below separate markets that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Is Wellard genuinely stable - or just expensive?
IRSAD hints at affluence, but socio-economic strength alone doesn't guarantee resilience. Combined with the renter-to-owner balance and unit-to-house ratio, you get the three signals that separate a tightly-held submarket from one carrying hidden volatility.
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Where do Wellard prices go over the next 12 months?
Today's headline price is just a snapshot. Projected ROI and the volatility index tell you whether to commit capital now, wait for a softer entry, or rotate into a steadie submarket.
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Can you actually buy into Wellard - and exit cleanly?
Tightly-held areas reward long-hold investors but punish anyone who needs liquidity. Annual sales and rental volume reveal whether your capital can reposition — or sits structurally locked in.
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Education & Infrastructure
Wellard looks tightly-held and stable on the surface — but the three layers below separate areas that genuinely hold value from ones that only look like they do.
Does Wellard's school catchment + infrastructure pipeline justify the price?
School ranks anchor family demand and tenant quality. The active infrastructure pipeline shifts a suburb's price ceiling over the next 5–10 years. Together they tell you whether Wellard has structural support for the next leg of capital growth.
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Full HtAG Intelligence
Wellard shows potential. The platform tells you whether it's the best fit for your portfolio.
Price and yield are only the surface. HtAG reads the forces underneath — supply tightening or loosening, demand heating or cooling, and the risks that move slowly but decide long-term growth. Together they show whether Wellard has the structural support for its next leg — or whether the numbers are running ahead of the fundamentals.
The total adult population (15 years or older) of Wellard 6170 WA is 10,434, with a median age of 31. Of those, 49.55% are married, 9.55% are divorced or separated, 39.02% are single and 1.91% are widowed.
The average household size is 3.0 people per dwelling, and the median household monthly income is estimated to be $9,000. The median monthly mortgage repayment for households in this suburb is $1,902 which is 21.13% of their earnings.
Source: ABS Census Data (2021)