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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 2,947 residents and recorded 1,353 private dwellings, with 119 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Kapunda sits about 24 kilometres north of Barossa Valley. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Freeling and Nuriootpa give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Kapunda is a standalone house: 1,161 of 1,233 occupied private dwellings, or 94.2%.

The commonest home in Kapunda is three-bedroom at 53.4% of occupied private dwellings, with 79.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 42 one-bedroom, 201 two-bedroom, 659 three-bedroom and 277 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 44 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Kapunda close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Kapunda is a two-car locality: 61.8% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 411 dwellings with one vehicle, 450 with two and 301 with three or more. Only 4.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

73.1% of work journeys from Kapunda were made by car on Census day. 3.6% walked or cycled. 7.1% 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 Kapunda is two-person, at 38.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 32.5%, with 19% of households at four people or more. Across 819 families, 33.2% were couples with children, 47.9% couples without and 17.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Kapunda was 49 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $246 a week, about level with the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,127 a month. Median household income ran to $1,140 a week, against $625 for an individual.

Tenure in Kapunda split 40.2% owned outright, 38.3% mortgaged and 18.8% rented in 2021. That is 232 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Kapunda 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40666) 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.