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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 664 residents and recorded 638 private dwellings, with 342 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

On the map, Coffin Bay falls about 229 kilometres north-west of Kangaroo Island. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Port Lincoln and Tumby Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Coffin Bay is a standalone house: 280 of 295 occupied private dwellings, or 94.9%. A further 9 dwellings, 3.1%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Coffin Bay is three-bedroom at 47.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 68.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 13 one-bedroom, 63 two-bedroom, 140 three-bedroom and 48 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 14 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Coffin Bay close to the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Coffin Bay is a two-car locality: 64.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 97 dwellings with one vehicle, 130 with two and 57 with three or more. Only 1% recorded no motor vehicle.

71.9% of work journeys from Coffin Bay were made by car on Census day. 4.3% walked or cycled. 5.4% 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 Coffin Bay is two-person, at 46.4% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 31.5%, with 11.9% of households at four people or more. Across 190 families, 21.6% were couples with children, 67.4% couples without and 10.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Coffin Bay was 57 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $273 a week, above the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,254 a week, against $711 for an individual.

Ownership in Coffin Bay is unusually settled: 45.8% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 28.1% carrying a mortgage and 18.6% rented. That is 55 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Coffin Bay 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. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40278) 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.