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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 161 residents and recorded 166 private dwellings, with 101 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.

Horrocks lies roughly 417 kilometres north of Rottnest Island. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Drummond Cove and Waggrakine give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 66 occupied private dwellings in Horrocks, 84.8% are separate houses, 6.1% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Horrocks is three-bedroom at 53% of occupied private dwellings, with 66.7% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 11 two-bedroom, 35 three-bedroom and 5 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 4 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Horrocks below the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Horrocks is a two-car locality: 64.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 23 dwellings with one vehicle, 23 with two and 18 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

61.5% of work journeys from Horrocks were made by car on Census day. 7.7% walked or cycled. 10.8% 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 Horrocks is two-person, at 51.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 30.3%, with 6.1% of households at four people or more. Across 43 families, 27.9% were couples with children, 79.1% couples without and 0% one-parent families.

The median age in Horrocks was 55 at the 2021 Census, older than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $200 a week, below the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,357 a month. Median household income ran to $1,525 a week, against $771 for an individual.

Ownership in Horrocks is unusually settled: 62.1% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 24.2% carrying a mortgage and 18.2% rented. That is 12 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Horrocks 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.

Likely trip purposes here include weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50655) 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.