The Top Digital Suburbs Around Perth

As we continue our series on Australia’s top digital suburbs, today we look at WA, and the region around Perth. The top postcode is 6210, which includes Coodanup, Dudley Park, Erskine, Falcon, Greenfields, Halls Head, Madora Bay, Mandurah, Meadow Springs, San Remo, Silver Sands, and Wannanup around 65 kms from Perth.

The location of digitally active households is becoming an increasingly important question, as mobile penetration and use climbs. It fundamentally changes the optimal marketing approach and channel strategy.

Using data from our household surveys we track the proportion of households with a preference for using digital devices – especially smartphones – for their banking interactions and other online activities. The latest data, which will flow in due course to our next edition of the Quiet Revolution – our channel analysis report – shows that there are large numbers of digitally savvy consumers and small businesses who want more digital, and less branch. They want a “mobile first” offering.

To illustrate this we map the current branch representation around Brisbane, based on the latest APRA points of Presence report.

branch-mapping-waThen we mapped the number of households by digital segments – identifying those seeking a mobile first solution – to postcodes.  There is a striking mismatch between the two.

digital-footprint-perthHere is the top 10 listing by number of digitally aligned – mobile first – households across SA. They vary by segment, age, zone and region.

digital-suburbs-waThis information is useful to anyone wishing to engage with these households because it highlights where the centre of gravity for online initiatives should be focussed. The point is that although households are in the digital world, they still have a geographic centre. Digital still has a geographic sense.

Looking at the banks, it seems that they are not heeding the geographic concentration of mobile first households, and nor are they fully comprehending the changes afoot. We think it likely there will be significant stranded costs in the branch network, and insufficient focus on “mobile first”banking offerings.

Households are leading the way.

Next time we will reveal the top ten digital suburbs across Australia.

Author: Martin North

Martin North is the Principal of Digital Finance Analytics

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