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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 9,287 residents and recorded 3,173 private dwellings, with 158 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.

Atwell lies roughly 15 kilometres south-east of Fremantle. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Success and Banjup give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Atwell is a standalone house: 2,846 of 3,017 occupied private dwellings, or 94.3%.

Housing in Atwell runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 66.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 93.9% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 23 one-bedroom, 140 two-bedroom, 614 three-bedroom and 2,007 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 212 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Atwell close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Atwell is a two-car locality: 71.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 805 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,324 with two and 802 with three or more. Only 2% recorded no motor vehicle.

68.5% of work journeys from Atwell were made by car on Census day. 0.8% walked or cycled. 6.7% 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 Atwell is four-person, at 27.1% of households. 14% live alone and 40.1% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,580 families, 58.3% were couples with children, 26.5% couples without and 13.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Atwell was 35 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $400 a week, above the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $2,404 a week, against $939 for an individual.

Tenure in Atwell split 21.9% owned outright, 54% mortgaged and 22.9% rented in 2021. That is 690 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Atwell 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers 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 (SAL50036) 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.