Home to 2,144 residents, Esperance is a town in regional Western Australia with 49 houses & properties for sale in the area and surrounding suburbs. Esperance covers an area of 3 square kilometres which comprises 1,124 homes and private dwellings.
Over the past year, Esperance has experienced a 6.8% annual growth rate with a median house price of $470,000.
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The townsite of Esperance, located on the central south coast of the state, derives its name from the bay on which it is located. Esperance Bay was given this name by Admiral Bruny D'Entrecasteaux, commander of the French expedition which explored this coast in 1792. The name honours the ship "L'Esperance" commanded by Captain Huon de Kermadec, which anchored here on 9 December 1792. The bay provided safe anchorage while repairs were made to the "L'Esperance". The name of the other ship in D'Entrecasteaux's expedition, "L'Recherche", is preserved by the naming of the adjacent islands as the Archipelago of the Recherche.
The area of the Esperance townsite was first settled by the Dempster family in the 1870's, and in 1876 a telegraph station was opened here. The formal gazettal of the townsite did not occur until 1893.
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