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The 2021 Census counted 10,667 residents and recorded 4,839 private dwellings, with 790 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Aldinga Beach is about 11 kilometres south-west of McLaren Vale. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Port Willunga and Sellicks Beach give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Aldinga Beach is a standalone house: 3,683 of 4,053 occupied private dwellings, or 90.9%.

The commonest home in Aldinga Beach is three-bedroom at 52% of occupied private dwellings, with 86.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 40 one-bedroom, 448 two-bedroom, 2,107 three-bedroom and 1,223 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 173 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Aldinga Beach close to the McLaren Vale area median of 85.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 59.1% of occupied dwellings in Aldinga Beach kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,499 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,593 with two and 769 with three or more. Only 3.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.9% of work journeys from Aldinga Beach were made by car on Census day. 1.9% walked or cycled. 9.4% 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 Aldinga Beach is two-person, at 35.1% of households. 25.4% live alone and 24.1% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,966 families, 38.8% were couples with children, 37.7% couples without and 22.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Aldinga Beach was 39 at the 2021 Census, in line with the McLaren Vale area median of 42. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $320 median across the McLaren Vale localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,408 a month. Median household income ran to $1,297 a week, against $658 for an individual.

Tenure in Aldinga Beach split 26.1% owned outright, 42.4% mortgaged and 27.5% rented in 2021. That is 1,116 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Aldinga Beach 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40010) 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.