Dwellingup is a town in Western Australia located in a timber and fruitgrowing area in the Darling Range east-south-east of Pinjarra.

[4] In one of Western Australia's worst bushfires, the fires of 1961, many small surrounding communities in the area were destroyed, including 132 houses in Dwellingup itself.

[6][7] Dwellingup is near one of the largest bauxite mines in the world, at Huntly,[8] which supplies ore to the Pinjarra and Kwinana aluminium refineries.

[citation needed] The Bibbulmun Track, a long-distance walk trail, passes through Dwellingup.

[11] Dwellingup is one of the wettest inhabited places in Western Australia, with an average annual rainfall of over 1,200 mm.