Joondalup (suburb)

Joondalup Perth, Western Australia
Davidson Terrace, Joondalup
Joondalup
Coordinates	31°44′42″S 115°45′58″E / 31.745°S 115.766°E / -31.745; 115.766Coordinates: 31°44′42″S 115°45′58″E / 31.745°S 115.766°E / -31.745; 115.766
Population	8,420 (2006 census)
• Density	714/km2 (1,848/sq mi)
Established	1980s
Postcode(s)	6027
Area	11.8 km2 (4.6 sq mi)
Location	26 km (16 mi) from Perth
LGA(s)	City of Joondalup
State electorate(s)	Joondalup
Federal Division(s)	Moore
Suburbs around Joondalup: Kinross Neerabup Carramar Currambine Connolly Joondalup Lake Joondalup Heathridge Edgewater Edgewater

Joondalup is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, which includes the central business district of the regional city of Joondalup, as well as the council chambers for the City of Joondalup local authority.

The suburb is named after Lake Joondalup, on the banks of which the suburb resides. The name Joondalup is a Noongar Aboriginal word, first recorded in 1837 and possibly meaning either "place of whiteness or glistening", or "place of a creature that can only move backwards".

Joondalup is bounded by Burns Beach Road to the north, Mitchell Freeway to the west, Eddystone and Lakeside Drives to the south and Lake Joondalup to the east. Grand Boulevard and Joondalup Drive run through the centre of Joondalup. Most of Joondalup is zoned commercial or residential, although a significant suburban area exists between Moore Drive and Burns Beach Road near Currambine train station, and some small residential estates have been built in recent years along Lakeside Drive. The Yellagonga Regional Park and a small bushland corridor near the TAFE and university campuses can be found in the east and south.

At the ABS 2001 census, Joondalup had a population of 6,503 people living in 2,481 dwellings. Joondalup is unusual in that it has the highest proportion of British-born residents in Australia. According to 2001 Census data, 46.7 per cent of the suburb's population were overseas-born, of whom 23.0 per cent (1,613 persons) were born in Britain. This far exceeds the Australian average for both overseas-born and British-born in 2001 — 23.1 per cent and 5.8 per cent respectively.

Nonetheless, the Australia-born still constituted the largest individual birthplace group in Joondalup, at 53.3 per cent (3,730 persons), followed by the British-born at 23.0 per cent (1,613 persons), the New Zealand-born at 3.1 per cent (215 persons) and those born in the Republic of Ireland at 1.3 per cent (94 persons).