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The 2021 Census counted 3,637 residents and recorded 1,525 private dwellings, with 206 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.

Katanning lies roughly 233 kilometres east of Margaret River. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Mount Barker, WA and Bridgetown give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,317 occupied private dwellings in Katanning, 89.4% are separate houses, 9.6% townhouses and 0.4% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Katanning is three-bedroom at 47.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 77.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 34 one-bedroom, 228 two-bedroom, 625 three-bedroom and 335 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 57 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Katanning close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 57.4% of occupied dwellings in Katanning kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 450 dwellings with one vehicle, 457 with two and 276 with three or more. 8.2% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

78% of work journeys from Katanning were made by car on Census day. 4.2% walked or cycled. 2.9% 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 Katanning is two-person, at 34.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 30.7%, with 21.3% of households at four people or more. Across 896 families, 36.3% were couples with children, 45.3% couples without and 16.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Katanning was 38 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $200 a week, well below the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,005 a month. Median household income ran to $1,308 a week, against $698 for an individual.

Tenure in Katanning split 31.5% owned outright, 30.8% mortgaged and 32.2% rented in 2021. That is 424 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Katanning 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 local content record supports planning for 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 (SAL50742) 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.