Metropolitan LGAs
| Name | Council Seat | Formed | Current status |
Population (2010) |
Area | Website | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armadale, City of | Armadale | 1894 | 1985 | 60,983 | 560.3 km2 (216.3 sq mi) | Link | Armadale-Kelmscott until 1979 |
| Bassendean, Town of | Bassendean | 1901 | 1975 | 14,790 | 10.4 km2 (4.0 sq mi) | Link | West Guildford until 1922 |
| Bayswater, City of | Morley | 1897 | 1983 | 61,865 | 32.8 km2 (12.7 sq mi) | Link | |
| Belmont, City of | Cloverdale | 1898 | 1979 | 35,082 | 39.7 km2 (15.3 sq mi) | Link | |
| Cambridge, Town of | Floreat | 1994 | 1994 | 26,959 | 22.0 km2 (8.5 sq mi) | Link | Split from Perth |
| Canning, City of | Cannington | 1907 | 1978 | 88,433 | 64.9 km2 (25.1 sq mi) | Link | |
| Claremont, Town of | Claremont | 1898 | 1898 | 9,891 | 4.9 km2 (1.9 sq mi) | Link | |
| Cockburn, City of | Spearwood | 1871 | 1979 | 91,313 | 168.1 km2 (64.9 sq mi) | Link | Fremantle RD until 1959 |
| Cottesloe, Town of | Cottesloe | 1895 | 1907 | 8,222 | 3.9 km2 (1.5 sq mi) | Link | |
| East Fremantle, Town of | East Fremantle | 1897 | 1897 | 7,534 | 3.1 km2 (1.2 sq mi) | Link | |
| Fremantle, City of | Fremantle | 1871 | 1929 | 28,626 | 19.0 km2 (7.3 sq mi) | Link | |
| Gosnells, City of | Gosnells | 1907 | 1977 | 106,724 | 127.3 km2 (49.2 sq mi) | Link | |
| Joondalup, City of | Joondalup | 1998 | 1998 | 164,445 | 98.9 km2 (38.2 sq mi) | Link | Split from Wanneroo |
| Kalamunda, Shire of | Kalamunda | 1897 | 55,814 | 324.4 km2 (125.3 sq mi) | Link | Governed by commissioner until 1961 | |
| Kwinana, Town of | Kwinana Town Centre | 1954 | 1977 | 29,029 | 120.1 km2 (46.4 sq mi) | Link | |
| Melville, City of | Ardross | 1900 | 1968 | 102,434 | 52.9 km2 (20.4 sq mi) | Link | |
| Mosman Park, Town of | Mosman Park | 1899 | 1961 | 9,440 | 4.4 km2 (1.7 sq mi) | Link | Buckland Hill until 1937 |
| Mundaring, Shire of | Mundaring | 1903 | 38,910 | 643.7 km2 (248.5 sq mi) | Link | Greenmount until 1932 | |
| Nedlands, City of | Nedlands | 1893 | 1959 | 22,508 | 20.0 km2 (7.7 sq mi) | Link | Claremont RD until 1932 |
| Peppermint Grove, Shire of | Peppermint Grove | 1895 | 1,749 | 1.1 km2 (0.42 sq mi) | Link | ||
| Perth, City of | Perth | 1856 | 1856 | 17,955 | 12.0 km2 (4.6 sq mi) | Link | |
| Rockingham, City of | Rockingham | 1897 | 1988 | 104,130 | 257.1 km2 (99.3 sq mi) | Link | |
| Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Shire of | Mundijong | 1894 | 17,212 | 904.7 km2 (349.3 sq mi) | Link | ||
| South Perth, City of | South Perth | 1892 | 1959 | 43,908 | 19.8 km2 (7.6 sq mi) | Link | |
| Stirling, City of | Stirling | 1871 | 1971 | 202,014 | 104.8 km2 (40.5 sq mi) | Link | Shire of Perth until 1971 |
| Subiaco, City of | Subiaco | 1896 | 1952 | 18,862 | 7.0 km2 (2.7 sq mi) | Link | |
| Swan, City of | Midland | 1871 | 2000 | 112,960 | 1,044.0 km2 (403.1 sq mi) | Link | |
| Victoria Park, Town of | Victoria Park | 1994 | 1994 | 32,958 | 17.9 km2 (6.9 sq mi) | Link | Split from Perth |
| Vincent, City of | Leederville | 1994 | 2011 | 31,209 | 11.4 km2 (4.4 sq mi) | Link | Split from Perth |
| Wanneroo, City of | Wanneroo | 1902 | 1985 | 150,106 | 685.5 km2 (264.7 sq mi) | Link |
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