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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 3,725 residents and recorded 1,395 private dwellings, with 91 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.

Darlington, WA is about 21 kilometres east of Perth as the crow flies. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Glen Forrest and Greenmount give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Darlington, WA is a standalone house: 1,280 of 1,305 occupied private dwellings, or 98.1%.

Housing in Darlington, WA runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 44.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 91.4% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 90 two-bedroom, 445 three-bedroom and 577 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 171 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Darlington, WA close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Darlington, WA is a two-car locality: 79.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 256 dwellings with one vehicle, 612 with two and 420 with three or more. Only 0.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

63.3% of work journeys from Darlington, WA were made by car on Census day. 1.9% walked or cycled. 13.3% 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 Darlington, WA is two-person, at 37% of households. 16% live alone and 30.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,091 families, 48.9% were couples with children, 40.4% couples without and 10.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Darlington, WA was 44 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $420 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,100 a month. Median household income ran to $2,388 a week, against $938 for an individual.

Tenure in Darlington, WA split 40.6% owned outright, 51.4% mortgaged and 6.1% rented in 2021. That is 80 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Darlington, WA 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 local content record supports planning for 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 (SAL50390) 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.