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The 2021 Census counted 2,498 residents and recorded 1,188 private dwellings, with 110 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.

Kensington Gardens is about 6 kilometres east of Adelaide as the crow flies. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Kensington Park and Rosslyn Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Kensington Gardens carries real density. Flats and apartments are 32.9% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 46%, and townhouses 20.9%.

Kensington Gardens is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 42.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 46.3% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 38 one-bedroom, 457 two-bedroom, 336 three-bedroom and 194 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 39 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Kensington Gardens below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 46.3% of occupied dwellings in Kensington Gardens kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 494 dwellings with one vehicle, 349 with two and 146 with three or more. Only 7.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

63.7% of work journeys from Kensington Gardens were made by car on Census day. 3.6% walked or cycled. 13.2% 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 Kensington Gardens is single-person, at 36.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 36.7%, with 16.3% of households at four people or more. Across 657 families, 38.5% were couples with children, 44.6% couples without and 15.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Kensington Gardens was 45 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $346 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,000 a month. Median household income ran to $1,571 a week, against $915 for an individual.

Tenure in Kensington Gardens split 39.8% owned outright, 27.2% mortgaged and 30.2% rented in 2021. That is 325 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Kensington Gardens 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40678) 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.