Kwinana vs Bunbury

Kwinana and Bunbury are both regional hubs in Western Australia, but they offer very different levels of accessibility. Bunbury is very walkable, while Kwinana is mostly car-dependent. In Bunbury, 60.1% of homes are within a 15-minute walk of health services and 66.0% are near groceries, compared to just 19.1% and 35.1% in Kwinana. Bunbury also has far more homes within a 15-minute walk of a school and public transport.

Both areas share similar outcomes for their First Nations residents, including a typical age of 25 and an unemployment rate of 17.2%. This shared experience extends to the typical personal income for First Nations people, which is nearly identical in both places. While Kwinana has a larger Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population with 2,016 people compared to 1,402 in Bunbury, the two areas remain closely aligned in these key community measures.