Embleton is located approximately 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) north-east of the central business district of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) east of the Indian Ocean, and covers an area of 1.71 square kilometres (0.66 sq mi). It is surrounded by Bayswater to the south and east, Bedford to the west and Morley to the north. Its border roughly follows, heading anti-clockwise, Broun Avenue, Coode Street, Beaufort Street, Drake Street, Rothbury Road. Maurice Street, Langley Road and Beechboro Road.

Embleton is predominantly zoned as “urban” in the Metropolitan Region Scheme, however the area between Embleton Avenue and Tonkin Highway is zoned as “industrial”.