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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 18,459 residents and recorded 6,472 private dwellings, with 290 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.

The nearest larger market is Perth, about 13 kilometres away to the north. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Koondoola and Alexander Heights give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Ballajura is a standalone house: 5,830 of 6,177 occupied private dwellings, or 94.4%.

Housing in Ballajura runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 54.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 94.9% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 78 one-bedroom, 159 two-bedroom, 1,981 three-bedroom and 3,345 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 539 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ballajura close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Ballajura is a two-car locality: 69.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 1,693 dwellings with one vehicle, 2,452 with two and 1,775 with three or more. Only 3.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

74.4% of work journeys from Ballajura were made by car on Census day. 0.9% walked or cycled. 5.4% 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 Ballajura is two-person, at 30.7% of households. 17.8% live alone and 32.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 5,109 families, 48.4% were couples with children, 31.3% couples without and 18.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Ballajura was 37 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.9 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,703 a month. Median household income ran to $1,726 a week, against $716 for an individual.

Tenure in Ballajura split 30% owned outright, 49.9% mortgaged and 18% rented in 2021. That is 1,110 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ballajura 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50061) 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.