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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 140 residents and recorded 383 private dwellings, with 290 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.

On the map, Fisherman Bay falls about 145 kilometres north-west of Barossa Valley. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Port Broughton and Crystal Brook give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Fisherman Bay is a standalone house, all 90 of them.

Fisherman Bay is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 48.9% of occupied private dwellings, and 55.6% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 44 two-bedroom, 36 three-bedroom and 3 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts Fisherman Bay well below the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Fisherman Bay is comparatively light, with 31.5% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 49 dwellings with one vehicle, 22 with two and 6 with three or more. Only 3.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

79.5% of work journeys from Fisherman Bay were made by car on Census day. 7.7% walked or cycled.

The commonest household in Fisherman Bay is single-person, at 56.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 56.7%, with 4.4% of households at four people or more. Across 33 families, 27.3% were couples with children, 87.9% couples without and 27.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Fisherman Bay was 64 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 1.5 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $133 a week, well below the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $932 a month. Median household income ran to $495 a week, against $458 for an individual.

Ownership in Fisherman Bay is unusually settled: 61.1% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 0% carrying a mortgage and 22.2% rented. That is 20 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Fisherman Bay 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40441) 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.