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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 2,814 residents and recorded 1,086 private dwellings, with 61 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

On the map, Hahndorf falls about 22 kilometres south-east of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Balhannah and Bridgewater, SA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,020 occupied private dwellings in Hahndorf, 85.5% are separate houses, 7% townhouses and 2.2% flats or apartments. A further 38 dwellings, 3.7%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Hahndorf is three-bedroom at 43.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 80.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 39 one-bedroom, 145 two-bedroom, 446 three-bedroom and 307 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 64 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Hahndorf close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Hahndorf is a two-car locality: 65.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 306 dwellings with one vehicle, 403 with two and 259 with three or more. Only 4.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

61.4% of work journeys from Hahndorf were made by car on Census day. 3.6% walked or cycled. 16.8% 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 Hahndorf is two-person, at 36.9% of households. 24.4% live alone and 24.6% of households hold four people or more. Across 762 families, 44.1% were couples with children, 44.9% couples without and 10.2% one-parent families.

The median age in Hahndorf was 51 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 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 $1,735 a week, against $767 for an individual.

Tenure in Hahndorf split 44% owned outright, 34.1% mortgaged and 15.7% rented in 2021. That is 160 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Hahndorf 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40548) 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.