Pemberton is a suburb of South Western,
Western Australia and is about 277 kms south of
WA's capital city of Perth. In the 2011 Australian
census the population of Pemberton was 1,013
when there were 484 Females and 529 Males
living there.
During the 1980s, Pemberton began to grow as
a tourist town and tourism, particularly
domestic, continues to play a key role.

Log sawmilling was still the most active industry
in 2005, occupying 12.8% of the workforce,
despite the state government drastically
reducing old growth logging in 2003. Rather
than shut down, the mill switched to plantation
Tasmanian blue gum and pine in addition to
karri.

Viticulture is now widely established with many
investment schemes buying up large areas of
pastureland and converting to vineyards.