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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 3,855 residents and recorded 1,860 private dwellings, with 156 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Adelaide is the closest sizeable market, roughly 9 kilometres to the south-west. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Glengowrie and Glenelg give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,702 occupied private dwellings in Glenelg East, 47.6% are separate houses, 43.7% townhouses and 8.5% flats or apartments.

Glenelg East is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 42.8% of occupied private dwellings, and 47.6% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 82 one-bedroom, 728 two-bedroom, 541 three-bedroom and 292 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 48 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Glenelg East below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 49.4% of occupied dwellings in Glenelg East kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 718 dwellings with one vehicle, 609 with two and 223 with three or more. 8.3% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

61.9% of work journeys from Glenelg East were made by car on Census day. 4.9% walked or cycled. 12.9% 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 Glenelg East is single-person, at 35.4% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 35.4%, with 17.3% of households at four people or more. Across 1,057 families, 39.5% were couples with children, 45.2% couples without and 13.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Glenelg East was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $325 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $1,681 a week, against $976 for an individual.

Tenure in Glenelg East split 34.3% owned outright, 31% mortgaged and 32% rented in 2021. That is 545 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Glenelg East 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies 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 (SAL40506) 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.