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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 18,202 residents and recorded 10,257 private dwellings, with 2,006 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Adelaide is some 0 kilometres north of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Kent Town and North Adelaide give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Adelaide carries real density. Flats and apartments are 66.9% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 4.3%, and townhouses 26.7%.

Adelaide is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 51.9% of occupied private dwellings, and 78% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 1,965 one-bedroom, 4,281 two-bedroom, 1,487 three-bedroom and 157 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 51 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Adelaide well below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Adelaide is comparatively light, with 13.9% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 3,933 dwellings with one vehicle, 958 with two and 166 with three or more. 37.7% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

29.5% of work journeys from Adelaide were made by car on Census day. 31.3% walked or cycled. 12.7% 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 Adelaide is single-person, at 45.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 45.3%, with 4.9% of households at four people or more. Across 3,328 families, 17.3% were couples with children, 66.3% couples without and 11.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Adelaide was 31 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 1.8 people and 1 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $400 a week, above the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $1,365 a week, against $726 for an individual.

Adelaide has a substantial rental base, with 63.8% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 15% mortgaged and 17.5% owned outright. That is 5,266 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Adelaide 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.

Likely trip purposes here include visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40002) 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.