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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 1,304 residents and recorded 502 private dwellings, with 43 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.

Boyanup lies roughly 79 kilometres north-east of Margaret River. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Gelorup and Dalyellup give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Boyanup is a standalone house: 449 of 458 occupied private dwellings, or 98%.

Housing in Boyanup runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 42.6% of occupied private dwellings, and 85.4% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 11 one-bedroom, 48 two-bedroom, 169 three-bedroom and 195 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 27 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Boyanup close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Boyanup is a two-car locality: 74.6% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 110 dwellings with one vehicle, 169 with two and 166 with three or more. Only 0.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.2% of work journeys from Boyanup were made by car on Census day. 1.5% walked or cycled. 7.1% 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 Boyanup is two-person, at 40.6% of households. 19.9% live alone and 24.5% of households hold four people or more. Across 367 families, 39.5% were couples with children, 48% couples without and 11.2% one-parent families.

The median age in Boyanup was 46 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $1,609 a week, against $745 for an individual.

Tenure in Boyanup split 40.6% owned outright, 43.9% mortgaged and 11.6% rented in 2021. That is 53 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Boyanup 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50169) 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.