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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 2,789 residents and recorded 1,079 private dwellings, with 82 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.

Glen Forrest lies roughly 23 kilometres east of Perth. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Darlington, WA and Greenmount give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Glen Forrest is a standalone house: 980 of 995 occupied private dwellings, or 98.5%.

Housing in Glen Forrest runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 43.9% of occupied private dwellings, and 92.8% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 9 one-bedroom, 63 two-bedroom, 377 three-bedroom and 437 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 109 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Glen Forrest close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Glen Forrest is a two-car locality: 77.3% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 210 dwellings with one vehicle, 429 with two and 335 with three or more. Only 1.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

63.5% of work journeys from Glen Forrest were made by car on Census day. 1.3% walked or cycled. 11.7% 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 Glen Forrest is two-person, at 37.7% of households. 18.6% live alone and 25.9% of households hold four people or more. Across 815 families, 45.8% were couples with children, 40.6% couples without and 11.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Glen Forrest was 45 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $2,103 a week, against $876 for an individual.

Tenure in Glen Forrest split 41.7% owned outright, 49.4% mortgaged and 7% rented in 2021. That is 70 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Glen Forrest 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 local content record supports planning for regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50552) 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.