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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 4,398 residents and recorded 1,568 private dwellings, with 141 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Perth is the closest sizeable market, roughly 8 kilometres to the south-west. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Nedlands and Crawley give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Dalkeith is a standalone house: 1,370 of 1,423 occupied private dwellings, or 96.3%.

Housing in Dalkeith runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 40.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 93.7% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 one-bedroom, 76 two-bedroom, 263 three-bedroom and 577 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 494 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Dalkeith close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Dalkeith is a two-car locality: 80.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 245 dwellings with one vehicle, 659 with two and 479 with three or more. Only 1.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

65% of work journeys from Dalkeith were made by car on Census day. 2.8% walked or cycled. 16.6% 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 Dalkeith is two-person, at 33% of households. 13.4% live alone and 39.9% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,243 families, 54.9% were couples with children, 36.4% couples without and 7.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Dalkeith was 45 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $802 a week, well above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $5,000 a month. Median household income ran to $4,672 a week, against $1,403 for an individual.

Ownership in Dalkeith is unusually settled: 55% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 27.2% carrying a mortgage and 16% rented. That is 228 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Dalkeith 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50374) 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.