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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 2,627 residents and recorded 1,051 private dwellings, with 67 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Kensington Park is about 5 kilometres east of Adelaide. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Kensington Gardens and Beulah Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 988 occupied private dwellings in Kensington Park, 68.3% are separate houses, 25.5% townhouses and 5.5% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Kensington Park is three-bedroom at 39.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 69% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 46 one-bedroom, 253 two-bedroom, 386 three-bedroom and 226 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 70 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Kensington Park close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 55.8% of occupied dwellings in Kensington Park kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 370 dwellings with one vehicle, 372 with two and 174 with three or more. Only 6.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

60.7% of work journeys from Kensington Park were made by car on Census day. 5.8% walked or cycled. 13.7% 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 Park is two-person, at 33.3% of households. 26.3% live alone and 26% of households hold four people or more. Across 698 families, 45.8% were couples with children, 40.4% couples without and 13% one-parent families.

The median age in Kensington Park was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,300 a month. Median household income ran to $2,058 a week, against $888 for an individual.

Tenure in Kensington Park split 41.6% owned outright, 27.3% mortgaged and 27% rented in 2021. That is 267 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Kensington Park 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers 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 (SAL40679) 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.