The joys of statistics: DPIRD Beekeeping statistics of Western Australia. Our head count, and in which suburb most beekeepers are operating.

Lets have a look at the exiting topic of statistics and registered beekeepers in Western Australia.

Lets start with the total registrations of beekeepers since 2005. The line remains fairly flat until into 2012 where there had been quite a significant growth and increase in yearly registrations. Keep in mind what you are looking at are the yearly additions to the already registered beekeepers.

When we look at the totals building up the graph looks a bit like this:

At the time of this writing (20.4.2023), there had been a total of 4877 registered beekeepers according to DPIRD in April 2023 in Perth Western Australia.

When we have a look at within which suburbs those beekeepers are based we can see the following:

When you further examine the top 25 zip codes out of above list then the following crystalizes below, indicating which zip code in WA holds most beekeepers.




ZIP CODE Registrations WA-6056 92 Midland area WA-6285 86 Margaret River Area WA-6230 86 Bunbury Area WA-6330 82 Albany Area WA-6333 81 Denmark Area WA-6111 81 Kelmscott, Roleystone, Camillo, Perth WA-6210 80 Mandurah Area WA-6084 80 Bullsbrook, Lower Chittering, Chittering, Avon Valley WA-6530 79 Geralton WA-6164 74 Success, Cockburn Central, Jandakot WA-6112 73 Armadale, Harrisdale WA-6069 69 Ellenbrook, Aveley, The Vines WA-6258 59 Manjimup WA-6450 56 Esperance WA-6163 54 Bibra Lake, Spearwood, Hamilton Hill WA-6055 54 Guildford WA-6239 52 Donnybrook WA-6233 50 Australind WA-6018 50 Karrinyup WA-6020 48 Sorrento WA-6065 47 Wanneroo WA-6083 46 Gidgegannup WA-6027 46 Joondalup WA-6010 46 Claremont

Now lets focus on when as in which month of the year beekeepers tend to sign up and register themselfs with DPIRD as there seems to be a recuring wave pattern visible:

And as it turns out, April seems to be the low point of all new beekeeper registrations followed by August when things start to kick off again for the year and then peaking into spring and summer followed by a drop of going into March again.

We will probably update this blog entry over the coming years every so often to reflect the updates since last posting, as its kind of interesting on what is happening in this space.

Happy number crunching and analysing!

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Happy beekeeping,

The QuickWings Team

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