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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 440 residents and recorded 329 private dwellings, with 132 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.

The nearest larger market is Fleurieu Peninsula, about 29 kilometres away to the east. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Hayborough and McCracken give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 193 occupied private dwellings in Chiton, 87% are separate houses, 14.5% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Chiton is three-bedroom at 52.8% of occupied private dwellings, with 75.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 45 two-bedroom, 102 three-bedroom and 39 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 5 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Chiton close to the Fleurieu Peninsula area median of 78.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.8% of occupied dwellings in Chiton kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 84 dwellings with one vehicle, 71 with two and 32 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

71.4% of work journeys from Chiton were made by car on Census day. 3.2% walked or cycled. 11.1% 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 Chiton is two-person, at 54.4% of households. 27.5% live alone and 11.4% of households hold four people or more. Across 142 families, 23.9% were couples with children, 71.8% couples without and 4.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Chiton was 63 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fleurieu Peninsula area median of 60. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $335 a week, above the $250 median across the Fleurieu Peninsula localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,625 a month. Median household income ran to $1,212 a week, against $624 for an individual.

Ownership in Chiton is unusually settled: 51.8% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 21.8% carrying a mortgage and 15.5% rented. That is 30 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Chiton 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40254) 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.