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The 2021 Census counted 1,321 residents and recorded 596 private dwellings, with 147 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Abbey is about 36 kilometres north-east of Margaret River as the crow flies. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Broadwater and Vasse give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Abbey is a standalone house: 433 of 453 occupied private dwellings, or 95.6%.

Housing in Abbey runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 49% of occupied private dwellings, and 91.6% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 21 two-bedroom, 168 three-bedroom and 222 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 25 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Abbey close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Abbey is a two-car locality: 67.8% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 128 dwellings with one vehicle, 207 with two and 94 with three or more. Only 2.7% recorded no motor vehicle.

68.8% of work journeys from Abbey were made by car on Census day. 2.7% walked or cycled. 9% worked from home, which is a fair proxy for whether the internet here is good enough to sell a stay on.

The commonest household in Abbey is two-person, at 40.4% of households. 17.4% live alone and 28.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 365 families, 43.3% were couples with children, 43.3% couples without and 12.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Abbey was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $410 a week, above the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,742 a month. Median household income ran to $1,737 a week, against $837 for an individual.

Tenure in Abbey split 37.5% owned outright, 34% mortgaged and 23.2% rented in 2021. That is 105 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Abbey at the 2021 Census. None of it describes visitors, nightly rates, occupancy or short-stay supply, and it must not be presented as if it did. Its use is to set expectations a host can then confirm from the property itself: the real bedroom count and bed layout, how many vehicles the space genuinely takes and whether that space is on-title or on-street, the actual route to the door, and the house rules a street of this kind will expect around noise and turnover.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50002) and ABS 2021 Census DataPacks, Suburbs and Localities tables G02 medians and averages, G29 family composition, G34 motor vehicles, G35 household composition, G36 dwelling structure, G37 tenure, G41 bedrooms and G62 travel to work and ABS ASGS Edition 3 Suburbs and Localities geography. Census figures provide locality context only and do not measure short-stay demand.