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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 4,578 residents and recorded 1,808 private dwellings, with 134 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Perth is the closest sizeable market, roughly 8 kilometres to the south. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Applecross and Mount Pleasant, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,668 occupied private dwellings in Ardross, 80.3% are separate houses, 16.7% townhouses and 2.9% flats or apartments.

Housing in Ardross runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 41.1% of occupied private dwellings, and 89.1% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 13 one-bedroom, 149 two-bedroom, 634 three-bedroom and 685 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 168 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ardross close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Ardross is a two-car locality: 63.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 566 dwellings with one vehicle, 736 with two and 310 with three or more. Only 2.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

61.9% of work journeys from Ardross were made by car on Census day. 3.4% walked or cycled. 11.7% 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 Ardross is two-person, at 32.9% of households. 20.4% live alone and 29% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,317 families, 50% were couples with children, 34.5% couples without and 13.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Ardross was 41 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $470 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,600 a month. Median household income ran to $2,361 a week, against $1,001 for an individual.

Tenure in Ardross split 42.4% owned outright, 34.8% mortgaged and 20.4% rented in 2021. That is 341 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ardross 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 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 (SAL50024) 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.