Lynwood is a residential suburb with a series of parks connecting along Bannister Creek and parallel to Nicholson Road. It contains a neighbourhood shopping centre with supermarket, post office, estate agency, and a number of food outlets, as well as a community hall and a primary school completed in 2010, which also services the adjoining suburb of
Ferndale.
Lynwood Senior High School, built in 1975, is in nearby Parkwood. In nearby suburbs, the Riverton Forum and
Westfield Carousel shopping centres are less than away, as is the Riverton Leisureplex, a large facility with sporting, fitness and recreation facilities that opened on 9 November 2001, operated by the
City of Canning and including the council's largest library. Parkwood Shopping Centre was built in 1979, but was demolished due to low patronage and now only consists of a few convenience stores and a small medical clinic. The Lynwood Arms Hotel, a local pub on Metcalfe Road, built in the early 1970s, was demolished in 2014 to make way for an upmarket
medium-density housing development. As at the late 2010s, Lynwood was one of the few suburbs, as with Heathridge, Beldon and Craigie up north, where you could see uninterrupted stretches of 1970s housing with the long narrow windows, dark brown colourings, and numerous arches. In other areas, redevelopment has taken place at rapid rates, and streetscapes have become unrecognizable. ==Transport==