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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 18,878 residents and recorded 6,383 private dwellings, with 400 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.

Byford sits about 30 kilometres south-east of Fremantle. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Darling Downs and Hilbert give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Byford is a standalone house: 5,907 of 5,984 occupied private dwellings, or 98.7%.

Housing in Byford runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 65.9% of occupied private dwellings, and 96.6% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 14 one-bedroom, 98 two-bedroom, 1,463 three-bedroom and 3,944 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 374 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Byford close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Byford is a two-car locality: 72.3% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 1,560 dwellings with one vehicle, 2,735 with two and 1,542 with three or more. Only 1.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

72.5% of work journeys from Byford were made by car on Census day. 1.1% walked or cycled. 5% 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 Byford is two-person, at 28.1% of households. 15.1% live alone and 38% of households hold four people or more. Across 5,098 families, 55.1% were couples with children, 28.1% couples without and 15.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Byford was 31 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,898 a month. Median household income ran to $2,059 a week, against $947 for an individual.

Tenure in Byford split 14% owned outright, 69% mortgaged and 15.4% rented in 2021. That is 919 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Byford 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 visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50230) 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.