Trayning

About Trayning

Trayning is a small wheatbelt town in the north-eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, situated approximately 236 kilometres east of Perth on the Nungarin–Wyalkatchem Road within the Shire of Trayning. The townsite covers a compact 1.6 square kilometres and has a 2021 population of 112 residents, with the broader farming district extending across a much larger area of wheat and cereal cropping country. Established as a railway siding in 1910 and gazetted as a townsite in 1912, Trayning has served as a modest service point for the surrounding agricultural community for over a century.

Trayning provides basic amenities for the surrounding grain-farming district, with a small commercial area along Railway Street, a primary school, a community hall, and sporting facilities that serve as a social hub for the district. The town has a notably compact character given its small area, with state housing comprising around 14 per cent of dwellings. Like many small wheatbelt towns, Trayning has experienced gradual population decline as agricultural mechanisation reduces demand for farm labour, but it retains a tight-knit rural community identity rooted in grain farming and pastoral life. Wyalkatchem, roughly 44 kilometres away, is the nearest larger service centre, while Perth is accessible via the Great Eastern Highway.

Trayning falls under postcode 6488 and is governed by the local council Council (LGA). For state elections, residents vote in the Central Wheatbelt (Agricultural) electorate.

Nearby Suburbs

• North Trayning, WA 6488
• South Trayning, WA 6488
• Kununoppin, WA 6489
• North Kununoppin, WA 6489
• North Yelbeni, WA 6487
• South Kununoppin, WA 6489