Mundaring is a suburb located 34 km east of Perth, Western Australia on the Great Eastern Highway.

The Mundaring region is currently well served by weekly and monthly newspapers: Former newspapers in the area included: The only railway line current in the Mundaring Shire – is the third route of the Eastern Railway which passes through Bellevue and Swan View.

The line served a small population but played an integral part in the development and history of Mundaring.

Mundaring was the location of a Bureau of Mineral Resources Geophysical Observatory from 1959 to April 2000.

[11][12][13] The town lies within the Mundaring-Kalamunda Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance as a non-breeding season roost site and foraging base for the long-billed black cockatoos.