East Rockingham is an industrial suburb within the Kwinana Industrial Area, part of Perth, and located within the City of Rockingham.

The suburb developed as a rural community in the 1850s when various pioneers took up land and settled in the area along Mandurah Road; however, the community declined following the opening of the port at Rockingham in 1872.

[4] The Stephenson-Hepburn Plan for Perth and Fremantle (1955) identified the strategic importance of the locality for industrial development.

[5] The Water Corporation intends to construct a wastewater treatment facility in East Rockingham.

As of 2020, 113 places are heritage-listed in the City of Rockingham,[7] of which seven are on the State Register of Heritage Places, with five of those located in East Rockingham.