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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 9,770 residents and recorded 3,503 private dwellings, with 227 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.

On the map, Dalyellup falls about 79 kilometres north-east of Margaret River. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Gelorup and Usher give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Dalyellup is a standalone house: 3,105 of 3,277 occupied private dwellings, or 94.8%.

Housing in Dalyellup runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 65.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 92.8% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 94 one-bedroom, 84 two-bedroom, 743 three-bedroom and 2,137 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 162 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Dalyellup above the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Dalyellup is a two-car locality: 67.6% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 957 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,429 with two and 761 with three or more. Only 2.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

76% of work journeys from Dalyellup were made by car on Census day. 0.7% walked or cycled. 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 Dalyellup is two-person, at 30.3% of households. 17.5% live alone and 33.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,679 families, 51.1% were couples with children, 30.5% couples without and 17.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Dalyellup was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.9 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $2,066 a week, against $885 for an individual.

Tenure in Dalyellup split 17.7% owned outright, 52.6% mortgaged and 28.4% rented in 2021. That is 931 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Dalyellup 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers 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 (SAL50376) 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.