Legacy
- In 1985, the Beechboro-Gosnells Highway was renamed the Tonkin Highway after the completion of Stage Four, which linked Hardey Road and the Great Eastern Highway. Tonkin Bridge, which carries the highway over the Swan River, was named for him after his death in 1995.
- In November 2011, Mandurah High School and Mandurah Senior College, both in Mandurah, were amalgamated to form John Tonkin College, named to "honour a West Australian leader in education".
- John Tonkin Reserve, on the Swan River foreshore in East Fremantle, is named for Tonkin.
- Tonkin's former house at 174 Preston Point Road, East Fremantle, a single-storey California bungalow constructed in 1940, is listed on the Municipal Inventory of the Heritage Council of Western Australia as a "Historic Site".
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