Rockingham Rotary Market
Over 100 stall bays fill the Kent Street car park behind the Rockingham Dome every Sunday, with a gold coin entry that funnels straight into community projects.
About this market
The Rotary Club of Rockingham has been running this market on Sunday mornings since before 1990, and it has stayed the region's default Sunday outing ever since. Over 100 stall bays fill the Kent Street car park behind the Rockingham Dome and the Gary Holland Centre, with buyers admitted from 8am to 12pm.
A hundred bays of mostly secondhand and handmade
The mix is broad rather than specialised. Handmade goods and crafts trade alongside secondhand stalls, which is where the market's bargain reputation comes from, and there is a solid pantry corner of honey, spices and jams. Plants and books both do steady business. On the food side there is a barbecue sausage sizzle, coffee, ice cream and baked goods, enough that breakfast at the market is a reasonable plan rather than an afterthought.
Market at a glance
Both sides of the transaction are deliberately cheap. A seller bay costs $17.50, with a discount available to stallholders carrying their own insurance, and buyers pay a gold coin at the gate. That pricing is the point: keeping the barrier low for casual sellers is what keeps a market this size filled every single week rather than monthly.
The market has returned many hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Rockingham community, distributed as grants through a community committee. It also lends out the monthly sausage sizzle marquee so other local fundraising groups can trade from it.
Before you head down
The 8am opening is when buyers get in, not when the market wakes up. Sellers are on site from 6am setting up, so arriving right on eight puts you at the front of the queue with everything already laid out, which matters at a market where the secondhand stalls are the draw.
Bring a gold coin for the gate and cash for the stalls, since a casual seller with one bay for the morning is unlikely to have a card reader. Dogs are a common sight here. The location is central: the Kent Street car park sits behind the Dome and the Gary Holland Centre, walking distance from the Rockingham foreshore if you want to make a morning of it.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What time does the Rockingham Rotary Market open?
- Buyers are admitted from 8am until 12pm every Sunday. Sellers arrive from 6am, so the market is fully set up by the time the gates open.
- How much is entry?
- A gold coin donation. All of it, along with the seller fees, goes back to the community through grants administered by a community committee.
- What sort of stalls will I find?
- Over 100 bays of handmade goods and crafts, secondhand items, honey, spices and jams, plants and books, plus a barbecue sausage sizzle, coffee, ice cream and baked goods.