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The 2021 Census counted 2,096 residents and recorded 717 private dwellings, with 48 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.

Straight-line, Karnup is some 41 kilometres south of Fremantle. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Golden Bay and Secret Harbour give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Karnup is a standalone house, all 665 of them.

Housing in Karnup runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 63.6% of occupied private dwellings, and 97.4% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 one-bedroom, 6 two-bedroom, 146 three-bedroom and 423 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 79 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Karnup close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Karnup is a two-car locality: 74.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 159 dwellings with one vehicle, 300 with two and 187 with three or more. Only 0.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

66% of work journeys from Karnup were made by car on Census day. 2.9% walked or cycled. 8.6% 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 Karnup is two-person, at 29.8% of households. 13.1% live alone and 37.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 588 families, 53.4% were couples with children, 32.3% couples without and 14.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Karnup was 30 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $370 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,857 a month. Median household income ran to $2,122 a week, against $895 for an individual.

Tenure in Karnup split 17.6% owned outright, 61.2% mortgaged and 19.7% rented in 2021. That is 131 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Karnup 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. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50731) 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.