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Singleton is an outer southern suburb of
Perth Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...
, the capital city of
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, located within the City of Rockingham. It is the southernmost suburb of the Perth Metropolitan Area and is actually closer to the regional city
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than either Perth CBD or Rockingham. The area is under a development near the school, Singleton Primary, and near the main oval, Laurie Stanford Reserve. There is a
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service station, a small shopping centre, and a school. The suburb was named after Captain Francis Singleton, who arrived in the area in 1839 and became a substantial landholder in the area.


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Suburbs of Perth, Western Australia Suburbs in the City of Rockingham {{PerthAU-geo-stub