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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 6,961 residents and recorded 2,980 private dwellings, with 233 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.

Bicton is about 5 kilometres north-east of Fremantle as the crow flies. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Attadale and East Fremantle give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,742 occupied private dwellings in Bicton, 66.6% are separate houses, 27.7% townhouses and 5.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Bicton is three-bedroom at 41% of occupied private dwellings, with 76% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 95 one-bedroom, 535 two-bedroom, 1,123 three-bedroom and 812 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 149 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Bicton below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 58.7% of occupied dwellings in Bicton kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 978 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,089 with two and 504 with three or more. Only 5.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

66.5% of work journeys from Bicton were made by car on Census day. 2.2% walked or cycled. 10.4% 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 Bicton is two-person, at 34.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 31%, with 22% of households at four people or more. Across 1,858 families, 45.1% were couples with children, 42% couples without and 11.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Bicton was 45 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $360 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,383 a month. Median household income ran to $2,007 a week, against $990 for an individual.

Tenure in Bicton split 41.8% owned outright, 32.6% mortgaged and 22.1% rented in 2021. That is 606 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Bicton 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 local content record supports planning for 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 (SAL50119) 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.