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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 92 residents and recorded 228 private dwellings, with 186 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.

On the map, Balgowan falls about 120 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Maitland, SA and Port Victoria give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 41 occupied private dwellings in Balgowan, 85.4% are separate houses, 0% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Balgowan is three-bedroom at 56.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 65.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 two-bedroom, 23 three-bedroom and 4 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts Balgowan below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Balgowan is a two-car locality: 65.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 10 dwellings with one vehicle, 18 with two and 9 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

79.4% of work journeys from Balgowan were made by car on Census day. 11.8% 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 Balgowan is two-person, at 48.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.1%, and no household counted four people or more.

The median age in Balgowan was 60 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median mortgage repayments were $563 a month. Median household income ran to $860 a week, against $479 for an individual.

Ownership in Balgowan is unusually settled: 70.7% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 19.5% carrying a mortgage and 0% rented.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Balgowan 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies 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 (SAL40065) 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.