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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 11,681 residents and recorded 7,032 private dwellings, with 1,470 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, East Perth is about 2 kilometres east of Perth. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Burswood and Highgate, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

East Perth carries real density. Flats and apartments are 89.8% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 3.8%, and townhouses 6.1%.

East Perth is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 48.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 72.2% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 1,191 one-bedroom, 2,697 two-bedroom, 1,285 three-bedroom and 162 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 38 with five bedrooms or more. That puts East Perth well below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in East Perth is comparatively light, with 22.7% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 3,253 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,047 with two and 197 with three or more. 18% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

East Perth has usable public transport by local standards, with 23.7% of work journeys made by train, bus, ferry or tram against 39.4% by car. 10.6% walked or cycled. 8.2% 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 Perth is two-person, at 41.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 40.6%, with 5.9% of households at four people or more. Across 2,828 families, 22.2% were couples with children, 66.4% couples without and 8.9% one-parent families.

The median age in East Perth was 35 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 1.8 people and 1 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $410 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $2,005 a week, against $1,174 for an individual.

East Perth has a substantial rental base, with 61.4% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 20.4% mortgaged and 16% owned outright. That is 3,418 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of East Perth 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.

Likely trip purposes here include regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50464) 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.