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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 9,051 residents and recorded 3,710 private dwellings, with 454 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Perth, about 8 kilometres away to the south-east. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for St James and Cannington give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 3,252 occupied private dwellings in Bentley, 37.3% are separate houses, 48.6% townhouses and 14.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Bentley is three-bedroom at 37.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 66.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 366 one-bedroom, 621 two-bedroom, 1,206 three-bedroom and 631 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 312 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Bentley below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 42.9% of occupied dwellings in Bentley kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,346 dwellings with one vehicle, 847 with two and 516 with three or more. 14.9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

63.6% of work journeys from Bentley were made by car on Census day. 2.9% walked or cycled. 4.2% 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 Bentley is single-person, at 38.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 38.9%, with 20.6% of households at four people or more. Across 1,534 families, 32.6% were couples with children, 45.2% couples without and 15.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Bentley was 32 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,555 a month. Median household income ran to $1,212 a week, against $618 for an individual.

Bentley has a substantial rental base, with 56.9% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 16.1% mortgaged and 14.6% owned outright. That is 1,850 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Bentley 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. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50111) 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.