Halls Head is one of four Mandurah suburbs (along with Erskine, Falcon and Wannanup) that lie on an island bound by the Mandurah Estuary to the north, the Peel-Harvey Estuary to the east, the Dawesville Channel to the south and the Indian Ocean to the west.

The area directly north of the Mandurah Bridge was designated as a camping and recreation zone.

[4] In 1960, the Mandurah Country Club obtained land from the Sutton brothers and opened the first nine holes of the golf course in August 1961.

[6] In 1977, Esplanade Mandurah, a subsidiary of the Parry Corporation, acquired approximately 1,000 hectares of land at Halls Head for subdivision, development and eventual sale.

The development involved the Government Employees Superannuation Board and was one of the notorious WA Inc deals which later gave rise to a royal commission.