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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 6,957 residents and recorded 3,394 private dwellings, with 537 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.

Dudley Park lies roughly 55 kilometres south of Fremantle. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Coodanup and Mandurah give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,853 occupied private dwellings in Dudley Park, 84.5% are separate houses, 11.3% townhouses and 3.9% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Dudley Park is three-bedroom at 41.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 87.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 34 one-bedroom, 277 two-bedroom, 1,186 three-bedroom and 1,184 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 124 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Dudley Park close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.8% of occupied dwellings in Dudley Park kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,201 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,017 with two and 468 with three or more. Only 4.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

67.7% of work journeys from Dudley Park were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 5.8% 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 Dudley Park is two-person, at 43.1% of households. 29.9% live alone and 14.6% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,943 families, 27.4% were couples with children, 53% couples without and 17.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Dudley Park was 53 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $310 a week, below the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,530 a month. Median household income ran to $1,193 a week, against $590 for an individual.

Tenure in Dudley Park split 40.5% owned outright, 30.7% mortgaged and 25.6% rented in 2021. That is 730 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Dudley Park 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50431) 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.