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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 1,838 residents and recorded 1,086 private dwellings, with 227 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Busselton is about 42 kilometres north-east of Margaret River as the crow flies. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for West Busselton and Geographe give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 860 occupied private dwellings in Busselton, 70.7% are separate houses, 17% townhouses and 1.3% flats or apartments. A further 85 dwellings, 9.9%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Busselton is three-bedroom at 47.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 66% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 68 one-bedroom, 194 two-bedroom, 406 three-bedroom and 144 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 18 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Busselton below the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 41% of occupied dwellings in Busselton kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 418 dwellings with one vehicle, 247 with two and 97 with three or more. 9.8% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

68.1% of work journeys from Busselton were made by car on Census day. 7% walked or cycled. 5.6% 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 Busselton is single-person, at 42.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 42.8%, with 8.7% of households at four people or more. Across 480 families, 22.1% were couples with children, 60.8% couples without and 14.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Busselton was 56 at the 2021 Census, older than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 1.9 people and 0.7 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 $1,635 a month. Median household income ran to $949 a week, against $624 for an individual.

Busselton has a substantial rental base, with 38.7% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 15.1% mortgaged and 41.9% owned outright. That is 333 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Busselton 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. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50228) 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.