Balcatta
Balcatta is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
Balcatta is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Its local government area is the City of Stirling. It is a primarily middle-class suburb made up of mainly Italian and Greek families as well as many families from other European countries. It is also one of the largest suburbs in the northern part of the Perth metropolitan area. Much of Balcatta is a commercial and industrial area.
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Worth seeing in and around Balcatta
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Westfield Innaloo
Westfield Innaloo is a major shopping centre in the northern suburbs of Perth. It is located at the corner of Scarborough Beach Road and Ellen Stirling Boulevard in Innaloo, approximately 8 kilometres north-west of the Perth central business district.
3.3 km · shopping mall in Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia - 02Karrinyup Shopping Centre
Karrinyup Shopping Centre is a shopping centre built in 1973 in Karrinyup, a suburb of Perth. The centre is one of the largest shopping centres in Western Australia.
3.5 km · shopping mall in Western Australia, Australia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Balcatta
- Airports
- Perth (PER), 16 km
- Stations
- Mirrabooka bus station, 3.9 km · Karrinyup bus station, 3.7 km · Stirling railway station, 2.4 km · Warwick railway station, 4 km
- Port Hedland → Balcatta1315 km · quickest by air, 5h 39m · A$280–420
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Balcatta
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balcatta. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundA paper ticket purchasable from ticket machines at train stations and ferry jetties, and from bus drivers.
- Get aroundA ferry service operates between Elizabeth Quay in the city and Mends Street Jetty in South Perth.
- Get aroundElizabeth Quay train station is adjacent to the ferry terminal.
- Get aroundLocal Bicycle Routes (a series of on-road routes and some suburban off-road sections that run through parks).
- Go nextIt's a favourite place for day trips and overnight getaways from Perth, and once the home of Bushranger Moondyne Joe.
From Wikivoyage: Perth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Balcatta
Balcatta is 9 km from Perth, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Stirlingsuburb of Perth, Western Australia1 km
- Innaloosuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.2 km
- Karrinyupsuburb of Perth, Western Australia3.8 km
- Osborne Parksuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.5 km
- Tuart Hillsuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.9 km
- Westminstersuburb of Perth, Western Australia2.1 km