The City’s Parks Services Department manages over 820 classified parks and amenity areas including sports fields, parklands, natural areas, community facilities, street gardens and public access ways covering an area of 1890 hectares within an area of 560 square kilometres and includes 19 suburbs and localities from coastal plain suburbs to the hills environment.
Total area of Public Open Space (POS) approximately 1890ha
Area of Local Government (km²) 560.4km²
Number of reserves managed by the City including; Sports fields, Irrigated Passive Reserves, Dry Parks, Natural Areas, Community facilities and Regional Bushland – 269
Maintain 19 active reserves consisting of approximately 89 hectares of maintained turf
The City currently manage a diverse range of approximately 27,000+ street trees, all of which have different characteristics, sizes, ages, health and condition
There are 119 playgrounds in the City of Armadale
11 skate parks and bike tracks
3 dog parks
58 BBQ’s in parklands
150 Shade Sails
Fitness equipment within 23 Reserves
There are 389 bins in parks
There is approximately 1,297ha of bushland in total of which 42ha is intensively managed by an on-ground team of 3 full time employees
Beautiful and diverse bushland areas ranging from Marri Jarrah dominated woodlands in the Darling Scarp to Banksia woodlands in the Swan Coastal Plain
There are five (5) shared-use facilities within the City for the provision and shared use of public open space and shared community infrastructure on and/or adjacent to school sites
Number of Public Access Ways managed by the City – 270
Parks Services manages over 820 classified parks/reserves
Number of street trees under powerlines Citywide - estimate 12,000 trees
* All statistics as of March 2025 The City’s Parks Services department continues to strive to continuously improve management practices over its parklands, sports fields, public open space, irrigation, general parks maintenance, verges and streetscapes.
