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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 1,463 residents and recorded 1,142 private dwellings, with 487 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.

Augusta is about 40 kilometres south of Margaret River as the crow flies. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Molloy Island and Gnarabup give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 652 occupied private dwellings in Augusta, 85.4% are separate houses, 7.5% townhouses and 0.6% flats or apartments. A further 29 dwellings, 4.4%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Augusta is three-bedroom at 48.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 72.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 39 one-bedroom, 126 two-bedroom, 319 three-bedroom and 130 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 23 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Augusta close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 56.3% of occupied dwellings in Augusta kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 256 dwellings with one vehicle, 260 with two and 103 with three or more. Only 4% recorded no motor vehicle.

65.2% of work journeys from Augusta were made by car on Census day. 4.7% 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 Augusta is two-person, at 44.6% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 38%, with 8.6% of households at four people or more. Across 395 families, 23.5% were couples with children, 66.8% couples without and 10.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Augusta was 62 at the 2021 Census, older than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 1.9 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $280 a week, below the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,551 a month. Median household income ran to $869 a week, against $541 for an individual.

Ownership in Augusta is unusually settled: 53.7% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 18.9% carrying a mortgage and 21% rented. That is 137 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Augusta 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 evidence-led starting mix is weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50038) 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.