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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 314 residents and recorded 242 private dwellings, with 115 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 220 kilometres away to the north-west. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Port Hughes and Moonta Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Arno Bay is a standalone house: 118 of 121 occupied private dwellings, or 97.5%. A further 3 dwellings, 2.5%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Arno Bay is three-bedroom at 52.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 76.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 one-bedroom, 17 two-bedroom, 63 three-bedroom and 26 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 4 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Arno Bay close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Arno Bay is a two-car locality: 71.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 31 dwellings with one vehicle, 57 with two and 31 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

62.8% of work journeys from Arno Bay were made by car on Census day. 7.3% 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 Arno Bay is two-person, at 37.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33.1%, with 21.5% of households at four people or more. Across 80 families, 40% were couples with children, 53.8% couples without and 16.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Arno Bay was 52 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $183 a week, well below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $867 a month. Median household income ran to $982 a week, against $582 for an individual.

Ownership in Arno Bay is unusually settled: 53.7% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 24.8% carrying a mortgage and 15.7% rented. That is 19 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Arno Bay 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.

The supplied locality profile points to weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40042) 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.