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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 6,733 residents and recorded 3,099 private dwellings, with 235 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Carlisle lies roughly 6 kilometres south-east of Perth. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for East Victoria Park and Lathlain give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,864 occupied private dwellings in Carlisle, 66% are separate houses, 30.9% townhouses and 3% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Carlisle is three-bedroom at 56.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 75.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 147 one-bedroom, 509 two-bedroom, 1,623 three-bedroom and 477 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 62 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Carlisle below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 48.7% of occupied dwellings in Carlisle kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,206 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,014 with two and 358 with three or more. 8.8% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

64.4% of work journeys from Carlisle were made by car on Census day. 1.9% walked or cycled. 7.6% 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 Carlisle is single-person, at 34.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.3%, with 15.2% of households at four people or more. Across 1,661 families, 38.5% were couples with children, 43.6% couples without and 15% one-parent families.

The median age in Carlisle was 36 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $340 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,900 a month. Median household income ran to $1,766 a week, against $963 for an individual.

Carlisle has a substantial rental base, with 43% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 31.9% mortgaged and 21.8% owned outright. That is 1,231 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Carlisle 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.

Likely trip purposes here include regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50263) 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.