Lake Grace, WA
By Lauren McCaleb · Reviewed by Dylan Duncan ·
Lake Grace is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia, about 345 kilometres south-east of Perth and the main centre of the surrounding shire, set among the chain of salt lakes that share its name. Those lakes were named in 1910 by the district surveyor Marshall Fox after Grace Brockman, née Bussell, the wife of the Surveyor General, who as a young woman had become famous for a daring horseback rescue of survivors from an 1876 shipwreck. The town itself was established in 1911 and reached by rail in 1916. Its restored Australian Inland Mission hospital, opened in 1926, now serves as a heritage museum, and wheat remains the district's mainstay.
Around the national middle
Lake Grace is more socio-economically advantaged than about 55% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 995, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Lake Grace a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Around the national middle
A weighted blend of the 2 components we can score for Lake Grace from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
55/100Around the national middle
Around the national middle — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (55/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Housing affordability
82/100More affordable than most suburbs
Median weekly rent was $180 at the 2021 Census — more affordable than about 82% of suburbs we can compare. Housing data only, no valuations. · ABS Census 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Lake Grace at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 523
- Median age
- 38
- Median weekly household income
- $1,699
- SEIFA score
- 995
- Local government area
- Lake Grace
- Coordinates
- -33.0945, 118.4346
Map of Lake Grace
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Housing & property in Lake Grace
What it costs to live in Lake Grace and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median rent
- $180
- per week
- Median mortgage
- $1,083
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 62%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 26%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Lake Grace demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Lake Grace demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Lake Grace using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is young adults (25–44) at 26% and 15% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 106 | 21% |
| Youth (15–24) | 59 | 11% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 135 | 26% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 123 | 24% |
| Seniors (65+) | 93 | 18% |
Share of the 516 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 71 | 34% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 58 | 28% |
| Rented | 55 | 26% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 187 | 90% |
| Townhouses & semis | 13 | 6% |
| Flats & apartments | 3 | 1% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 207 occupied private dwellings in Lake Grace.
- Average household size
- 2.3 people
- Median weekly family income
- $2,143
- Median weekly personal income
- $987
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 72 (15%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 41 (8%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 17 (3%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 212 (52%)
- Labour-force participation
- 71.8%
- Employed full-time
- 208
- Employed part-time
- 74
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
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Common questions about Lake Grace
Is Lake Grace a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage and housing affordability, Lake Grace rates 64/100 overall (Around the national middle). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
What is the median rent in Lake Grace?
At the 2021 Census, the median weekly rent in Lake Grace was $180, and the median monthly mortgage repayment was $1,083. These are official ABS Census figures — StreetScout publishes housing data only, with no property valuations or agent referrals.
Where is Lake Grace?
Lake Grace is a suburb of Western Australia, Australia, in the Lake Grace local government area.
What is the population of Lake Grace?
At the 2021 Census, Lake Grace had a population of about 523.
Is Lake Grace an advantaged area?
Lake Grace has an ABS SEIFA score of 995, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 55 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 55% of Australian suburbs.
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