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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 3,346 residents and recorded 1,301 private dwellings, with 58 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, Banksia Park falls about 17 kilometres north-east of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Fairview Park and Tea Tree Gully give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Banksia Park is a standalone house, all 1,242 of them.

The commonest home in Banksia Park is three-bedroom at 63.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 95.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 4 one-bedroom, 39 two-bedroom, 784 three-bedroom and 330 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 71 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Banksia Park above the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Banksia Park is a two-car locality: 70.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 353 dwellings with one vehicle, 557 with two and 309 with three or more. Only 2% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.2% of work journeys from Banksia Park were made by car on Census day. 0.7% walked or cycled. 9.3% 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 Banksia Park is two-person, at 37.8% of households. 19.2% live alone and 27.5% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,007 families, 45% were couples with children, 40.1% couples without and 14% one-parent families.

The median age in Banksia Park was 41 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,550 a month. Median household income ran to $1,799 a week, against $794 for an individual.

Tenure in Banksia Park split 38.8% owned outright, 50.7% mortgaged and 10.5% rented in 2021. That is 131 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Banksia Park 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. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40070) 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.