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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 1,115 residents and recorded 779 private dwellings, with 317 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Hopetoun sits about 448 kilometres south-east of Perth. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Ravensthorpe and West Beach, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Hopetoun is a standalone house: 435 of 463 occupied private dwellings, or 94%. A further 11 dwellings, 2.4%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Hopetoun is three-bedroom at 41.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 73.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 37 one-bedroom, 83 two-bedroom, 191 three-bedroom and 137 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 11 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Hopetoun below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 50.9% of occupied dwellings in Hopetoun kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 203 dwellings with one vehicle, 165 with two and 65 with three or more. Only 3.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

55.3% of work journeys from Hopetoun were made by car on Census day. 5.2% walked or cycled. 5.2% 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 Hopetoun is two-person, at 39.1% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 36.9%, with 14.3% of households at four people or more. Across 283 families, 30.7% were couples with children, 56.2% couples without and 12.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Hopetoun was 46 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $250 a week, below the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,088 a month. Median household income ran to $1,542 a week, against $748 for an individual.

Tenure in Hopetoun split 35.4% owned outright, 13.6% mortgaged and 28.7% rented in 2021. That is 133 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Hopetoun 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50654) 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.