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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 1,605 residents and recorded 600 private dwellings, with 55 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.

Rottnest Island is the closest sizeable market, roughly 380 kilometres to the north. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Sunset Beach and Waggrakine give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Drummond Cove is a standalone house, all 545 of them.

Housing in Drummond Cove runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 67.7% of occupied private dwellings, and 94.7% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 5 one-bedroom, 17 two-bedroom, 117 three-bedroom and 369 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 30 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Drummond Cove above the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Drummond Cove is a two-car locality: 74.2% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 129 dwellings with one vehicle, 274 with two and 128 with three or more. Only 1.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

74.3% of work journeys from Drummond Cove were made by car on Census day. 1.5% 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 Drummond Cove is two-person, at 34.3% of households. 15.8% live alone and 30.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 455 families, 48.4% were couples with children, 36.5% couples without and 12.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Drummond Cove was 33 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2.8 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, above the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $2,134 a week, against $960 for an individual.

Tenure in Drummond Cove split 24% owned outright, 48.1% mortgaged and 27.9% rented in 2021. That is 152 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Drummond Cove 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. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50426) 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.