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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 2,799 residents and recorded 1,237 private dwellings, with 138 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 9 kilometres away to the west. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Fulham and Henley Beach give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,101 occupied private dwellings in Henley Beach South, 63.2% are separate houses, 17.2% townhouses and 19% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Henley Beach South is three-bedroom at 44.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 74.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 34 one-bedroom, 246 two-bedroom, 487 three-bedroom and 283 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 47 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Henley Beach South close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 58.6% of occupied dwellings in Henley Beach South kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 381 dwellings with one vehicle, 434 with two and 206 with three or more. Only 6.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

63.6% of work journeys from Henley Beach South were made by car on Census day. 2.2% walked or cycled. 13.7% 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 Henley Beach South is two-person, at 33.8% of households. 25.1% live alone and 25.6% of households hold four people or more. Across 794 families, 47.2% were couples with children, 38.9% couples without and 12.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Henley Beach South was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $340 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,167 a month. Median household income ran to $2,096 a week, against $1,040 for an individual.

Tenure in Henley Beach South split 36.4% owned outright, 34.7% mortgaged and 26.5% rented in 2021. That is 292 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Henley Beach South 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40585) 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.