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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 1,537 residents and recorded 707 private dwellings, with 96 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, Crystal Brook falls about 148 kilometres north-west of Barossa Valley. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Port Pirie South and Risdon Park South give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Crystal Brook is a standalone house: 559 of 613 occupied private dwellings, or 91.2%.

The commonest home in Crystal Brook is three-bedroom at 51.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 81.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 7 one-bedroom, 87 two-bedroom, 317 three-bedroom and 162 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 18 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Crystal Brook close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 54.8% of occupied dwellings in Crystal Brook kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 230 dwellings with one vehicle, 202 with two and 125 with three or more. Only 6.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

70.7% of work journeys from Crystal Brook were made by car on Census day. 6.6% 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 Crystal Brook is two-person, at 36.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33.3%, with 17.6% of households at four people or more. Across 403 families, 35.7% were couples with children, 48.4% couples without and 13.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Crystal Brook was 49 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $189 a week, below the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $975 a month. Median household income ran to $1,011 a week, against $557 for an individual.

Tenure in Crystal Brook split 44.4% owned outright, 30% mortgaged and 21.4% rented in 2021. That is 131 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Crystal Brook 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.

The supplied locality profile points to regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40331) 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.