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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 4,101 residents and recorded 1,589 private dwellings, with 74 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Gilles Plains is some 10 kilometres north-east of Adelaide. It decides which regional photograph this page carries and nothing else; journey advice has to come from current maps and the host. The nearby guides for Valley View and Holden Hill give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,513 occupied private dwellings in Gilles Plains, 77.5% are separate houses, 9.1% townhouses and 13.3% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Gilles Plains is three-bedroom at 63.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 82% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 53 one-bedroom, 200 two-bedroom, 958 three-bedroom and 245 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 38 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Gilles Plains close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 50.3% of occupied dwellings in Gilles Plains kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 575 dwellings with one vehicle, 545 with two and 203 with three or more. 10.6% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

68.3% of work journeys from Gilles Plains were made by car on Census day. 1.6% walked or cycled. 7.9% 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 Gilles Plains is two-person, at 31.3% of households. 26% live alone and 25.4% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,069 families, 47% were couples with children, 33% couples without and 18% one-parent families.

The median age in Gilles Plains was 36 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $295 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,536 a month. Median household income ran to $1,446 a week, against $678 for an individual.

Gilles Plains has a substantial rental base, with 40.2% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 36.9% mortgaged and 20.7% owned outright. That is 608 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Gilles Plains 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. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40495) 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.