Roller shutters for Willetton homes

At 2.0 burglaries per 1,000 residents in 2025, Willetton sits at about half the metropolitan rate of 4.0. WA Police recorded 39 burglaries in the suburb that year, a figure that combines homes and businesses, measured against the 19,262 people counted at the 2021 Census.

The fall over five years has been steep and steady. There were 144 burglaries in 2021, and each year after that came in lower: 117 in 2022, 65 in 2023, 47 in 2024 and 39 in 2025. That is a 72.9% drop from 2021, and in 2017 the count stood at 182. Motor vehicle thefts went from 12 to 5 over the same five years.

A low rate still means 39 burglaries in a year, and time away and summer heat matter here as much as security. Lowered, a shutter is a physical barrier on windows and doors, and it makes forced entry slower and noisier.

The City of Canning's local history says Willetton was mostly rural until the 1960s, with land slow to sell, and that by 1970 development was underway. The result is a suburb of houses: 89.9% of occupied dwellings were separate houses at the 2021 Census, against 77.8% for Greater Perth. Home ownership was 78.5% (Greater Perth 70.4%), and 39.3% of homes were owned outright.

On a house like that, residential roller shutters on the bedrooms come first for most owners, followed by big sliding doors and any window that takes the afternoon sun. Each shutter is built in our Wangara factory from Ozroll aluminium slats cut to size, with the motor fitted and tested before it leaves the floor. Pergolas and patios suit Slidetrack or Ziptrak blinds, manual or motorised.

A smaller share of Willetton homes are townhouses (4.3%) or flats (5.7%). If yours is part of a strata scheme, the default by-laws require the strata company's written consent before you keep anything visible from outside your lot that is not in keeping with the building.

Willetton is in the City of Canning. Under the state planning rules, shutters on a single house need no development approval when three things hold: the R-Codes apply to the work, it meets their deemed-to-comply provisions, and the house is not heritage protected. Willetton is not among the suburbs named on the City's Heritage List, adopted in June 2022.

One R-Codes detail is worth knowing if you want shutters or external blinds to do the job of a privacy screen. To count under the visual privacy standard, a screening device has to be at least 1.6 m high, at least 75% obscure, permanently fixed and made of durable material.

Seniors Card members may be able to claim the WA Seniors Card Safety and Security Rebate once, up to $400 per household, and window shutters are an eligible item.