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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 1,842 residents and recorded 643 private dwellings, with 50 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.

Karawara sits about 6 kilometres south of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Waterford, WA and Como, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 594 occupied private dwellings in Karawara, 73.2% are separate houses, 26.1% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Karawara is three-bedroom at 39.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 84% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 33 one-bedroom, 37 two-bedroom, 237 three-bedroom and 193 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 69 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Karawara close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 55.3% of occupied dwellings in Karawara kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 201 dwellings with one vehicle, 202 with two and 119 with three or more. 9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

61.1% of work journeys from Karawara were made by car on Census day. 4.5% walked or cycled. 8.2% 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 Karawara is two-person, at 29.6% of households. 24.9% live alone and 26.9% of households hold four people or more. Across 402 families, 44.5% were couples with children, 34.6% couples without and 16.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Karawara was 31 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.6 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 $2,000 a month. Median household income ran to $1,718 a week, against $588 for an individual.

Karawara has a substantial rental base, with 44.4% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 24.6% mortgaged and 26.9% owned outright. That is 264 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Karawara 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. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50724) 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.