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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 2,606 residents and recorded 1,067 private dwellings, with 87 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Capel lies roughly 63 kilometres north-east of Margaret River. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Peppermint Grove Beach and Gelorup give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Capel is a standalone house: 918 of 974 occupied private dwellings, or 94.3%.

Housing in Capel runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 45.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 89.5% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 13 one-bedroom, 75 two-bedroom, 385 three-bedroom and 443 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 44 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Capel close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Capel is a two-car locality: 68.4% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 283 dwellings with one vehicle, 374 with two and 282 with three or more. Only 2.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

72.4% of work journeys from Capel were made by car on Census day. 2.3% walked or cycled. 5.5% 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 Capel is two-person, at 38.9% of households. 23.8% live alone and 22.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 726 families, 38.6% were couples with children, 42.7% couples without and 17.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Capel was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.5 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 $1,498 a month. Median household income ran to $1,425 a week, against $703 for an individual.

Tenure in Capel split 30.5% owned outright, 47.4% mortgaged and 18.8% rented in 2021. That is 183 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Capel 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 (SAL50251) 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.