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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 9,251 residents and recorded 4,746 private dwellings, with 679 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Fremantle is about 2 kilometres east of Fremantle. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for White Gum Valley and East Fremantle give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Fremantle carries real density. Flats and apartments are 27.4% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 39.9%, and townhouses 32.1%.

Fremantle is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 36.3% of occupied private dwellings, and 51.8% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 595 one-bedroom, 1,478 two-bedroom, 1,384 three-bedroom and 417 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 103 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Fremantle well below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 40.8% of occupied dwellings in Fremantle kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,898 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,237 with two and 400 with three or more. 11.9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

52.1% of work journeys from Fremantle were made by car on Census day. 10.2% walked or cycled. 12% 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 Fremantle is single-person, at 40.6% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 40.6%, with 11.4% of households at four people or more. Across 2,164 families, 31.5% were couples with children, 51.7% couples without and 15.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Fremantle was 41 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,167 a month. Median household income ran to $1,822 a week, against $1,021 for an individual.

Fremantle has a substantial rental base, with 41.5% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 27.3% mortgaged and 28.3% owned outright. That is 1,689 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Fremantle 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 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 (SAL50522) 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.