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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 1,479 residents and recorded 873 private dwellings, with 120 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.

Measured in a straight line, Jolimont is about 5 kilometres west of Perth. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Daglish and Shenton Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Jolimont carries real density. Flats and apartments are 53.7% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 27.3%, and townhouses 18.4%.

Jolimont is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 50.4% of occupied private dwellings, and 67% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 121 one-bedroom, 379 two-bedroom, 151 three-bedroom and 73 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 15 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Jolimont well below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Jolimont is comparatively light, with 32.9% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 413 dwellings with one vehicle, 194 with two and 50 with three or more. 10.5% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

57.2% of work journeys from Jolimont were made by car on Census day. 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 Jolimont is single-person, at 49.1% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 49.1%, with 9.4% of households at four people or more. Across 367 families, 26.7% were couples with children, 59.9% couples without and 8.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Jolimont was 52 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, below the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,178 a month. Median household income ran to $1,345 a week, against $900 for an individual.

Tenure in Jolimont split 28.9% owned outright, 18.1% mortgaged and 33.4% rented in 2021. That is 251 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Jolimont 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50700) 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.