Jolimont only has a small residential section, with most of its land area taken up with parks and sporting facilities, although its catchment area[clarification needed] takes in blocks of flats on Cambridge Street, Wembley, and the entire suburb of Daglish.

Jolimont is a suburb approximately 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of the central business district (CBD) of Perth, the capital and largest city of Western Australia, and 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of the Indian Ocean.

To the north is Wembley, to the west is Floreat, to the south-west is Shenton Park, to the south is Daglish, and to the east is Subiaco.

The dunes consist of brown sand lying over yellow subsoil, with Tamala Limestone below.

[5]: 4 Prior to European settlement, the area was inhabited by the Mooro group of the Whadjuk Noongar people.

[6] Lakes and wetlands across the region, including within the Jolimont Swamp, were a source of food for them, and are places of spiritual importance.

[6]: 6–7  A freshwater spring in the south-west of Jolimont Swamp was a permanent camp for Clara Layland, an elder and custodian of knowledge known to the Noongar people as the "Daglish granny".

[7] The eastern part of the suburb, where the St. Ives Centro Retirement Village is located, has a median age of 81 years.

[13] The most common ancestries that people identified with at the 2016 census were English (30.8%), Australian (22.5%), Irish (8.5%), Scottish (8.4%), and Chinese (2.7%).

The Subiaco Municipal Council supported the progress organisation with this in March 1899, and in mid-1899, the Education Department approved the construction of a school in the area, and the site was soon chosen as well.

The school building was a single room brick and iron classroom of a standard design by the Public Works Department.

[17] The school had an average attendance of 62 by mid-1906, and so a new classroom was constructed by contractor F. L. Gurr, identical to the first one, at a cost of £349.

In 1921, the Jolimont Parents Association was formed, which helped with fundraising and improving the school grounds.

Over the next few decades, the number of students declined as new schools opened nearby and the demographics of the area changed.

More classrooms were built in 2010 as part of the federal government's Building the Education Revolution program.

[22] Councillors for the North Ward are Stephanie Stroud and Rosemarie de Vries, whose terms expire in 2023.

[25] For the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (lower house), Jolimont is part of the electoral district of Nedlands.

This seat is part of the North Metropolitan Region of the Western Australian Legislative Council (upper house).

Travelling on it east from Jolimont leads to Subiaco, Thomas Street, the Mitchell Freeway, and the Perth central business district (CBD).

Route 28 travels between Perth Busport and Claremont station on the Fremantle line, via Hay Street.

Less than 200 metres (660 ft) to the north of Jolimont is Cambridge Street, on which routes 81, 82 and 85 run.