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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 1,205 residents and recorded 464 private dwellings, with 33 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Fremantle, about 52 kilometres away to the south-east. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Serpentine and Mundijong give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Jarrahdale is a standalone house: 426 of 433 occupied private dwellings, or 98.4%.

Housing in Jarrahdale runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 40.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 83.4% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 46 two-bedroom, 143 three-bedroom and 174 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 44 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Jarrahdale close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Jarrahdale is a two-car locality: 82.3% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 69 dwellings with one vehicle, 174 with two and 171 with three or more. Only 1% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.7% of work journeys from Jarrahdale were made by car on Census day. 2.9% walked or cycled. 10% 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 Jarrahdale is two-person, at 39% of households. 19.4% live alone and 24.5% of households hold four people or more. Across 344 families, 43.6% were couples with children, 44.8% couples without and 11.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Jarrahdale was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $325 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,965 a month. Median household income ran to $2,057 a week, against $933 for an individual.

Tenure in Jarrahdale split 30.7% owned outright, 54.7% mortgaged and 8.3% rented in 2021. That is 36 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Jarrahdale 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50686) 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.