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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 4,019 residents and recorded 1,984 private dwellings, with 218 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

On the map, East Bunbury falls about 87 kilometres north-east of Margaret River. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Carey Park and Bunbury give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,762 occupied private dwellings in East Bunbury, 77.1% are separate houses, 20.7% townhouses and 1.6% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in East Bunbury is three-bedroom at 54% of occupied private dwellings, with 82% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 8 one-bedroom, 290 two-bedroom, 952 three-bedroom and 441 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 52 with five bedrooms or more. That puts East Bunbury close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.1% of occupied dwellings in East Bunbury kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 727 dwellings with one vehicle, 624 with two and 286 with three or more. Only 6.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

74.5% of work journeys from East Bunbury were made by car on Census day. 3.5% walked or cycled. 3.8% 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 East Bunbury is two-person, at 39.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 35%, with 14.4% of households at four people or more. Across 1,106 families, 30.6% were couples with children, 48.7% couples without and 18.5% one-parent families.

The median age in East Bunbury was 47 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, about level with the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,470 a month. Median household income ran to $1,193 a week, against $679 for an individual.

Tenure in East Bunbury split 36% owned outright, 29.9% mortgaged and 29.2% rented in 2021. That is 515 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of East Bunbury 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50452) 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.