A city of houses. By our count of the ABS 2021 Census tables for the SA2 areas that make up Greater Perth, about 605,000 of its 779,000 occupied private dwellings were separate houses, close to four in five. Flats and apartments made up about one home in thirteen, and they're concentrated: the Perth Inner region held about 26,400 of them, along with about two-thirds of the 9,300 flats in blocks of nine storeys or more. Outside the inner area, fewer than one home in twenty is a flat. For most Perth movers that means the form should be built around houses, sheds and gardens, with a separate path for the city and inner-suburb apartment jobs where lift bookings and loading docks set the day.
Who's moving. In the same Census, about 207,500 Greater Perth homes were rented, a little over a quarter, and about 118,000 of those rented homes were separate houses. A good share of Perth's rental moves are therefore full house loads to a deadline, not a few boxes out of a studio. Our Perth cleaners page covers what WA tenants have to hand back at the end of a lease, which is worth a link if you work alongside cleaners. For what consumer agencies tell people to check before booking a removalist, such as itemised quotes, deposits, insurance that usually covers only the truck, and storage charges if a date slips, see the NSW and Queensland advice on our Sydney and Brisbane pages. A Perth customer will ask you the same questions.
Coming into WA. Quarantine WA runs road checkpoints on the WA/SA border at Eucla on the Eyre Highway and on the WA/NT border on the Victoria Highway near Lake Argyle, both open around the clock. Its guidance says quarantine risk material must be declared on arrival, that people moving house should complete the personal goods declaration, and that there may be delays and inspection fees. Items normally used outdoors should be checked for soil before they're packed. Because the rules and fees can change, the useful thing on your site is a link to what you can bring into WA (opens in a new tab), not a summary in your own words.
The road east, and no tolls. The Eyre Highway is the only sealed road between Western Australia and South Australia, running 1,664 kilometres from Norseman to Port Augusta, so any road move east from Perth is a multi-day trip before it reaches Adelaide. Inside the metro area it's simpler than in the eastern capitals: Australia's toll roads are in New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, so a Perth job doesn't carry toll lines on the invoice. If your hourly rate or fixed price is all there is, say so near the quote button. Mandurah sits inside Greater Perth in the ABS boundaries, which is a fair reason to treat it as part of your metro area rather than a country run, if that's how you price it.
How we work with Perth businesses. We're an Adelaide team. Our current clients are in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland, and a Perth build runs the same way theirs do, by phone and email. You send your rates, your quarantine and interstate process, the areas you cover and photos of your trucks and crew, and we turn them into the pages.