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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 1,821 residents and recorded 715 private dwellings, with 59 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Chidlow is some 40 kilometres east of Perth. It decides which regional photograph this page carries and nothing else; journey advice has to come from current maps and the host. The nearby guides for Mount Helena and Wooroloo give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Chidlow is a standalone house, all 652 of them.

Housing in Chidlow runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 43.7% of occupied private dwellings, and 88.8% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 7 one-bedroom, 50 two-bedroom, 227 three-bedroom and 285 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 67 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Chidlow close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Chidlow is a two-car locality: 78.3% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 136 dwellings with one vehicle, 230 with two and 272 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

67% of work journeys from Chidlow were made by car on Census day. 0.7% walked or cycled. 7.3% 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 Chidlow is two-person, at 37% of households. 19.6% live alone and 26.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 514 families, 43.4% were couples with children, 41.6% couples without and 13.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Chidlow was 44 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $1,971 a week, against $818 for an individual.

Tenure in Chidlow split 30.5% owned outright, 56.3% mortgaged and 10.3% rented in 2021. That is 67 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Chidlow 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50290) 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.