East Fremantle Perth, Western Australia | |||||||||||||||
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![]() The East Fremantle Town Hall, located on Canning Highway. | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 32°02′12″S 115°46′04″E / 32.0366967°S 115.767731°E | ||||||||||||||
Population | 7,819 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1890s | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 6158 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 3.1 km2 (1.2 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Location | 17 km (11 mi) from Perth | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Town of East Fremantle | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Bicton / Fremantle | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Fremantle | ||||||||||||||
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East Fremantle (nicknamed East Freo) is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) south-west of the central business district. The suburb is mainly residential, and is coterminous with the Town of East Fremantle local government area.
Previously serving as an outer, rural area of Fremantle, most of the present-day suburb was originally developed in the late 1890s and early 1900s as a result of the Western Australian gold rushes. Further development occurred in the late 1940s and 1950s to provide dwellings for new immigrants. Two major arterial roads – Canning Highway and Stirling Highway – pass through the suburb, which is also bounded to the north by the Swan River.