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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 258 residents and recorded 269 private dwellings, with 156 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.

Fleurieu Peninsula is the closest sizeable market, roughly 73 kilometres to the north-west. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Edithburgh and Wool Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Coobowie is a standalone house: 106 of 116 occupied private dwellings, or 91.4%. A further 9 dwellings, 7.8%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Coobowie is three-bedroom at 54.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 75% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 17 two-bedroom, 63 three-bedroom and 19 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 5 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Coobowie close to the Fleurieu Peninsula area median of 78.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 54.1% of occupied dwellings in Coobowie kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 47 dwellings with one vehicle, 39 with two and 20 with three or more. Only 2.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

61.6% of work journeys from Coobowie were made by car on Census day. 15.1% 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 Coobowie is single-person, at 46.6% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 46.6%, with 3.4% of households at four people or more. Across 59 families, 30.5% were couples with children, 55.9% couples without and 23.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Coobowie was 59 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fleurieu Peninsula area median of 60. Households averaged 1.9 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $200 a week, below the $250 median across the Fleurieu Peninsula localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $975 a month. Median household income ran to $877 a week, against $557 for an individual.

Ownership in Coobowie is unusually settled: 46.6% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 22.4% carrying a mortgage and 18.1% rented. That is 21 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Coobowie 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. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40296) 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.