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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 71 residents and recorded 154 private dwellings, with 117 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Kangaroo Island, about 42 kilometres away to the east. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Kingscote and Marion Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 38 occupied private dwellings in Island Beach, 89.5% are separate houses, 0% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Island Beach is three-bedroom at 42.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 63.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 11 two-bedroom, 16 three-bedroom and 8 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts Island Beach close to the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 41.2% of occupied dwellings in Island Beach kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 16 dwellings with one vehicle, 10 with two and 4 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

44.8% of work journeys from Island Beach were made by car on Census day. 10.3% 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 Island Beach is single-person, at 52.6% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 52.6%, with 7.9% of households at four people or more.

The median age in Island Beach was 60 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 1.7 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $220 a week, about level with the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,142 a month. Median household income ran to $725 a week, against $630 for an individual.

Ownership in Island Beach is unusually settled: 55.3% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 31.6% carrying a mortgage and 13.2% rented. That is 5 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Island Beach 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. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40630) 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.