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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 2,326 residents and recorded 1,343 private dwellings, with 178 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.

Highgate, WA lies roughly 2 kilometres north-east of Perth. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Mount Lawley and Perth, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Highgate, WA carries real density. Flats and apartments are 53.3% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 21.2%, and townhouses 25.5%.

Highgate, WA is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 41% of occupied private dwellings, and 68.4% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 296 one-bedroom, 477 two-bedroom, 291 three-bedroom and 50 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 13 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Highgate, WA well below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Highgate, WA is comparatively light, with 30.4% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 625 dwellings with one vehicle, 282 with two and 69 with three or more. 15.2% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

50.9% of work journeys from Highgate, WA were made by car on Census day. 10.4% walked or cycled. 9.2% 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 Highgate, WA is single-person, at 44.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 44.5%, with 8.3% of households at four people or more. Across 539 families, 24.1% were couples with children, 61.8% couples without and 10.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Highgate, WA was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $365 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,752 a month. Median household income ran to $1,852 a week, against $1,194 for an individual.

Highgate, WA has a substantial rental base, with 56.7% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 23.3% mortgaged and 18.6% owned outright. That is 660 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Highgate, WA 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 evidence-led starting mix is regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50635) 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.