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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 1,659 residents and recorded 728 private dwellings, with 62 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

On the map, Dulwich falls about 3 kilometres east of Adelaide. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Rose Park and Glenside give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 663 occupied private dwellings in Dulwich, 70.3% are separate houses, 28.5% townhouses and 2.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Dulwich is three-bedroom at 37.4% of occupied private dwellings, with 66.8% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 68 one-bedroom, 156 two-bedroom, 248 three-bedroom and 153 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 42 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Dulwich close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 51% of occupied dwellings in Dulwich kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 280 dwellings with one vehicle, 252 with two and 89 with three or more. Only 6.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

54.6% of work journeys from Dulwich were made by car on Census day. 10.8% walked or cycled. 17.9% 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 Dulwich is two-person, at 31.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 30.5%, with 23.5% of households at four people or more. Across 442 families, 50.5% were couples with children, 37.1% couples without and 12% one-parent families.

The median age in Dulwich was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,600 a month. Median household income ran to $2,101 a week, against $1,036 for an individual.

Tenure in Dulwich split 40.3% owned outright, 28.4% mortgaged and 30.8% rented in 2021. That is 204 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Dulwich 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. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40379) 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.