Cockburn is one of the major Coastal Cities found in the state of Western Australia. Situated just 22km south of Perth, the State's Capital City, and 8km south of Fremantle, once the home of the "America's Cup" in the 1980's.
This coastal City is renowned for it's historical and tourism features along with its agriculture and ship building industries.
Electric sunsets cover Cockburn's skies over clean, inviting beaches
and picturesque inland lakes, add to the warm cosmopolitan feel of
Western Australia's Fun Coast.
One of the City's most unique features is a chain of five lakes running north to south through the heart of the City. Sixteen Aboriginal campsites have been identified throughout Cockburn, most of them on the fringes of two of the larger lakes, North Lake and Bibra Lake.
Cockburn's population is just over 75,000 people and is expected to grow to more than 100,000 by the year 2016
Cockburn
is very much a developing City, with a good mix of residential and
rural areas, and is at an exciting stage of its growth. With about
27,000 residential places and over 2000 businesses, it still has the
capacity for another 15,000 residential areas and the city centres and
communities facilities that must come with such residential growth to
meet peoples needs and expectations.