Best locksmiths in Fremantle, Melville and Cockburn (2026)
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Nineteen locksmith listings cover Fremantle, Melville and Cockburn on Google. Three of them can be ranked. The other sixteen fail one of two tests that have nothing to do with how good they are: either the business does not appear on the Western Australia Police Force register of licensed security organisations, or it publishes no street address, which leaves nothing to check a locality claim against. This page ranks the three that clear both, explains every exclusion by name, and points out the two listings most likely to mislead a homeowner in a hurry.
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The strongest licensed review record in this catchment belongs to Lion Lock and Security, at 5.0 from 216 reviews, and it is not on the list because it publishes no street address. That is the normal shape of this trade rather than a black mark. A paid placement is the route onto the page for any licensed locksmith working out of a van.
See placement optionsElite Lock Service
Elite Lock Service trades from shop 9/22 Shields Crescent, Myaree, and carries the largest rankable review record in the catchment at 5.0 from 224 reviews. On the organisations register it appears as Elite Lock Service, licence 15064, held by an agent named Jared Rawson, and that licence carries no other trading name, so nothing here is one business wearing several hats. A weighted score of 4.8457 puts it clear of second place by 0.1881, which is a real gap rather than a rounding artefact. The shopfront matters more in this trade than it looks: it is the only reason a locality claim can be checked at all.
View listingLocksmith DC Lock and Key
Listed at unit 311/21 Malata Crescent, Success, and on the register as DC Lock and Key, licence 58649, agent Dylan Cunningham. Weighted 4.6576 from 4.9 across 65 reviews. One thing to know before you dial: this operator runs two Google profiles, the second being Locksmith DC Lock and Key Fremantle at 119a Stoneham Road, Attadale, showing 5.0 from 78 reviews on the same phone number. They are one business. The scores are not added together here, because adding them would invent a review record that no customer ever wrote, and the profile matching the registered name is the one ranked.
View listingGronbek Security & Master Locksmith Perth
The only locksmith with a Fremantle street address that also clears the register, at 89 Hampton Road. On the register the trading name is the shorter Gronbek Security, licence 15457, agent Michael Gronbek. Its weighted score lands on 4.5000 exactly, and that is worth a sentence because it shows what the maths is doing. The formula pulls every business towards a 4.5 baseline until it has enough reviews to earn a different number. Gronbek already sits at 4.5, so 74 reviews move it nowhere. A 4.5 with a real shopfront and a licence is a perfectly ordinary good result, not a warning.
View listingHow the order was decided
The licence came first. Every trading name found on Google was checked against the Western Australia Police Force list of current licence holders, Organisations, published as a PDF and stamped as at 7 September 2026. That list carries 2,292 organisations and is searchable by trading name, which is exactly what a Google listing shows. A business with no entry on it is not ranked here, whatever its reviews say.
The score came second. Ratings are weighted so a small number of reviews cannot beat a large one on sentiment alone, using a 4.5 baseline and a 100 review pivot. Two gaps separate the three names, 0.1881 and 0.1576, and both are far larger than the measurement noise, so the order is meaningful rather than decorative.
Who was left out, and why
Sixteen listings did not make the ranking. None of these are judgements about workmanship. They are failures of the two things this page can actually verify.
- Krazy Keys, 4.7 from 431 reviews. The largest locksmith review record anywhere in this catchment, and there is no matching entry on the organisations register as at 7 September 2026, under that spelling or any near variant. It also publishes no street address. Much of its work is automotive, and car work sits outside the installer licence, so the absence is not necessarily irregular. It is simply unverifiable here.
- Mister Minit Booragoon, 4.9 from 313 reviews. Cut on trade. Google files it as a shoe repair shop, and it is not on the register. Key cutting at a shopping centre kiosk is a different service from a locksmith attending your door.
- Lighthouse Locksmiths, 4.7 from 215 reviews. Licensed, licence 8544, and it does publish a street address, which makes it the near miss of this page. The address is Shop 5/3 South Street, and the place page coordinates put that shop in Canning Vale, not Melville. It is a strong operator in the wrong catchment, and it will be considered when the south east corridor is covered.
- Car Key Rescue Perth, 5.0 from 221 reviews. Automotive specialist, no street address, no register entry. The vehicles exclusion below explains why that combination is normal for car key work.
- Nine licensed operators with no public address. Lion Lock and Security 5.0 from 216, Metropolitan Lock Service 5.0 from 126, iLockWA 5.0 from 121, Lock It Locksmiths 5.0 from 60, Shield Lock and Key 5.0 from 55, Fremantle Lock Service 4.9 from 33, Guv’nor Locksmiths 5.0 from 26, Melville Lock Services 4.8 from 25 and Lance Lock Service 5.0 from 24. All appear on the register. None can be tied to a suburb by anything a reader could check.
- Two more with no register entry. Lock and Key Locksmiths WA at 5.0 from 18 reviews, and PEL Locksmiths Fremantle at 4.9 from 8. Neither trading name returns a match on the organisations list, and neither publishes an address.
One licence can carry several trading names
This is the trap specific to WA locksmiths, and it is worth understanding before you compare quotes. The register lists a licence number against each trading name, and a single number often appears more than once. Freo City Locksmiths holds licence 23964, and so do Calibre Locksmiths and Perth City Locksmiths. Those three names are one licensed operator. Elsewhere in the state a single licence carries seven Baldivis trading names, each built around the suburb.
Nothing about that is improper. It does mean a page of search results showing you four independent looking Fremantle locksmiths might be showing you two businesses. On this site the trading names sharing a licence number are collapsed before anyone is scored, and none of the three ranked above shares a licence with anything else.
The licence classes that decide who does the work
Read off the WA Police page on types of security licences, last updated 8 May 2026. The classes come from Regulation 27 of the Security and Related Activities (Control) Regulations 1997.
| Licence | Category | What it means when you call one |
|---|---|---|
| Security Agent | Agent | Authorises a business to advertise and supply security services, and to employ licensed installers. A locksmith who is self-employed or subcontracting under their own ABN must hold one. This is the licence that puts a trading name on the public register. |
| Security Installer Class 1 | Non-agent | Install, maintain and repair safes, vaults and locks of a kind prescribed in Regulation 6. The broadest of the lock classes. |
| Security Installer Class 2 | Non-agent | Security alarms, closed circuit television for security purposes, and equipment and devices prescribed in Regulation 8. Not lock work. |
| Security Installer Class 3 | Non-agent | Security doors as prescribed in Regulation 7. Relevant for a screen door rather than a lock change. |
| Security Installer Class 4 | Non-agent | Install locks of a kind referred to in Regulation 6. Narrower than Class 1: installation only. |
The clause worth knowing sits above all four. A Security Installer licence, in the regulator’s own words, does not apply to installers of security equipment in vehicles, vessels or aircraft. Car key and immobiliser work therefore sits outside it, which is why an automotive specialist such as Krazy Keys or Car Key Rescue Perth may be absent from the organisations register in a way a house locksmith would not be. If your problem is a car park rather than a front door, the register is the wrong test.
Before you call anyone
- Ask for the licence number, then check it yourself. The organisations list is a free PDF on the WA Police pages and it is searchable by trading name. A locksmith who is genuinely licensed will not mind being looked up.
- Ask whether the business trades under any other name. One licence number can carry several. It changes what a second quote is actually worth.
- Check the address is a place, not a suburb. A service area with no street number tells you nothing about who turns up or how far they travel.
- Say at the outset whether it is a car or a building. Different licence rules, often a different specialist, and a wasted call out fee if you get it wrong.
- Get the call out fee and the after hours rate before the van leaves. Lockouts are the one job nobody shops around on, which is exactly when it pays to.
Questions
Only three names on a page covering three local government areas. Is that the whole trade?
No, and the gap is the point. Nineteen locksmith listings were assessed across Fremantle, Melville and Cockburn, carrying 2,255 Google reviews between them. Three could be ranked. The rest were excluded because they are absent from the licence register, publish no street address, sit in a neighbouring catchment, or are a different trade altogether. Locksmithing is overwhelmingly a mobile trade, so the evidence that lets a page rank a plumber or an electrician by suburb mostly does not exist here. Widening the map until three more names appeared would have produced a longer list and a less honest one.
A locksmith I know is good is not on this page. Does that mean they are unlicensed?
Not at all. The most common reason to be left out here is publishing no street address, which is an ordinary choice for a mobile business and says nothing about the work. Nine licensed operators were excluded on that ground alone. Absence from the register is a narrower finding, and where it applies this page names the business and states the date the list was checked rather than drawing a conclusion about conduct.
Why does the highest rated business not come first?
Because a perfect score from a handful of reviews is weaker evidence than a near perfect score from hundreds. Every rating here is pulled towards a 4.5 baseline in proportion to how few reviews sit behind it. Elite Lock Service leads on 5.0 from 224 reviews precisely because the volume holds the score up once that weighting is applied.
Two Google listings showed the same phone number. Which one is real?
Both, in the sense that both belong to the same business. Locksmith DC Lock and Key appears once at Success and once as a Fremantle profile at Attadale, on one phone number. Duplicate profiles are common where a mobile trade wants to surface in more than one suburb. The rule applied here is never to add the review counts together, because the combined figure would describe a business that does not exist. The profile carrying the registered name is the one ranked.
Does a locksmith need a licence to rekey my house or open a locked door?
The regulator sets out four installer classes covering safes, vaults and locks, alarms and CCTV, security doors, and lock installation. What it states plainly is that a self-employed locksmith or one subcontracting under their own ABN must also hold a Security Agent licence, which is what places a trading name on the public organisations register. This page does not attempt to say which class any individual job falls under. Ask the operator, and check the number they give you.
Is Lighthouse Locksmiths worth calling even though it was excluded?
Very likely, if you are at the eastern edge of this area. It is licensed, it has a shopfront, and it carries 215 reviews at 4.7. The only reason it is not ranked is that its address coordinates to Canning Vale, which is outside the three local government areas this page covers. Excluding a strong operator on geography rather than quality is the cost of ranking by locality at all, and saying so is more useful than quietly stretching the map.
Licensed, local, and not on this page?
Nine of them are, on address alone.
See placement optionsBrowse the directoryLast updated 22 September 2026. Ratings and review counts read from Google place pages on that date; locality confirmed from place page coordinates rather than business names; licence status checked against the Western Australia Police Force list of current licence holders, Organisations, as at 7 September 2026; licence categories and the vehicles exclusion read from the WA Police types of security licences page, last updated 8 May 2026. Absence from a register is reported as at the date checked and is not a statement about any operator’s conduct.