Canning - Central vs Victoria Park

Canning - Central and Victoria Park are neighbouring areas in Perth with different layouts and community profiles. Victoria Park has a far higher street connectivity score, with 403 intersections per square kilometre compared to 250 in Canning - Central. There are far more Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living in Victoria Park, and that group there is noticeably older, with a typical age of 29 compared to 22 in Canning - Central. This is consistent with a well higher typical personal income for First Nations people in Victoria Park, which is $635 compared to $488 in Canning - Central.

Both areas are very walkable and share a high level of accessibility to essential services. Nearly every home in both places is within a 15-minute walk of a park, and they have almost identical counts of different amenity types within that same distance. While Victoria Park has a little higher walkability score, Canning - Central is actually far higher when it comes to the share of homes within a 15-minute walk of health services, at 90.7% compared to 79.8%.