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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 1,443 residents and recorded 807 private dwellings, with 124 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.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 2 kilometres away to the north-east. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Norwood, SA and Rose Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Kent Town carries real density. Flats and apartments are 60.3% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 8.1%, and townhouses 30.8%.

Kent Town is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 55% of occupied private dwellings, and 73.3% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 117 one-bedroom, 375 two-bedroom, 156 three-bedroom and 21 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts Kent Town well below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Kent Town is comparatively light, with 28.8% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 367 dwellings with one vehicle, 159 with two and 36 with three or more. 17.3% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

46.1% of work journeys from Kent Town were made by car on Census day. 20.5% walked or cycled. 14.1% 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 Kent Town is single-person, at 48.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 48.5%, with 5.4% of households at four people or more. Across 303 families, 21.5% were couples with children, 63.4% couples without and 11.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Kent Town was 36 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 1.7 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,924 a month. Median household income ran to $1,461 a week, against $831 for an individual.

Kent Town has a substantial rental base, with 57% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 16.1% mortgaged and 20.2% owned outright. That is 389 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Kent Town 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 evidence-led starting mix is regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40680) 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.