Scarborough
Scarborough is a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located approximately 14 km northwest of the city centre in the City of Stirling local government area. Located along the coast of the Indian Ocean, it was named after the English beach resort Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
Soil zone · Spearwood Sands
Yellow-brown sands over Tamala limestone at varying depth. Free-draining with mildly alkaline pH from the underlying limestone.
- Drainage
- High
- Water retention
- Low
Groundwater · Gnangara Mound
Large unconfined superficial aquifer covering most of Perth north of the Swan River. Primary garden-bore source for the northern suburbs.
- Bore prevalence
- Very high
- Water table
- 1-5 m
Rainfall (2024)
Annual rainfall captured at this suburb's coordinates from Open-Meteo's ERA5 reanalysis archive.
- Annual total
- 675 mm
- Wet season (May-Sep)
- 542 mm
- Dry season (Nov-Mar)
- 72 mm
- Source
- open-meteo
Demographics & geography
- Population
- 17,605 (as of 2021-08-10)
- Area
- 4.9 km²
- Density
- 3,593 / km²
- Postcode
- 6019
- LGA
- City of Stirling
- Coordinates
- -31.8942, 115.7640
- Drive distance
- ~25.5 km from Jandakot HQ
Page content this drives
With four independent data dimensions per suburb (soil, bore, rainfall, demographics), the static landing page can vary 5+ content sections meaningfully — not just by suburb name swaps. Real differentiation is what avoids Google's doorway-page penalty.
- Hero copy
- "Reticulation services in Scarborough (City of Stirling) — 25.5 km from our Jandakot workshop"
- Soil-aware advice
- "Scarborough sits in the spearwood sands zone. Moderate cycles work well."
- Bore vs scheme
- "Bore prevalence here is very high (Gnangara Mound, water table 1-5 m)."
- Rainfall context
- "Annual rainfall ~675mm with 72mm in the dry season - irrigation must cover the gap."
- Schema.org payload
- LocalBusinessServiceareaServed: ScarboroughgeoCoordinates