Bindoon is located 84 kilometres (52 mi) from Perth city on the Great Northern Highway within the Shire of Chittering.
Bindoon is where the majority of training and selection takes place for the Australian Special Air Service Regiment. Some of the facilities include live-firing ranges, the Brigade Special Training Facilities (MOUT) and full scale Boeing 747 mockup to simulate the storming of an airliner.
The Catholic Agricultural College is located in Bindoon and was previously known as Keaney College.
Bindoon hosts the annual 'Bindoon and Districts Agricultural Show'. The districts covered are Bindoon, Chittering, Gingin, Bullsbrook among others. The show features cattle, poultry, fruit and vegetable exhibition and competition, horses in action, floriculture, cookery, art, general crafts, needlecrafts, photography, amateur wine making and home brewing, home produce, children's exhibition and pet parades.
The name Bindoon is thought to be Aboriginal in origin and is thought to mean "place where the yams grow". The name has been in use in the area since 1843 when an early settler, William Brockman, named the property he had surveyed as Bindoon. The townsite was gazetted in 1953.
