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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 9,092 residents and recorded 3,509 private dwellings, with 269 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.

The nearest larger market is Perth, about 12 kilometres away to the south-east. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for East Cannington and Kenwick give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 3,242 occupied private dwellings in Beckenham, 80.6% are separate houses, 13.9% townhouses and 5.4% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Beckenham is three-bedroom at 47.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 84.3% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 80 one-bedroom, 368 two-bedroom, 1,542 three-bedroom and 1,057 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 135 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Beckenham close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 59.2% of occupied dwellings in Beckenham kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,176 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,223 with two and 661 with three or more. Only 3.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

71.2% of work journeys from Beckenham were made by car on Census day. 0.8% walked or cycled. 4.3% 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 Beckenham is two-person, at 30.5% of households. 24.1% live alone and 26.8% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,360 families, 47% were couples with children, 34.5% couples without and 15.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Beckenham was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $340 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $1,667 a week, against $796 for an individual.

Beckenham has a substantial rental base, with 35.7% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 38.6% mortgaged and 22.8% owned outright. That is 1,157 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Beckenham 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 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 (SAL50090) 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.