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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 5,633 residents and recorded 2,221 private dwellings, with 210 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Kilburn is about 8 kilometres north of Adelaide. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Blair Athol, SA and Enfield, SA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,017 occupied private dwellings in Kilburn, 45.7% are separate houses, 42.4% townhouses and 11% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Kilburn is three-bedroom at 49.8% of occupied private dwellings, with 64.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 67 one-bedroom, 610 two-bedroom, 1,005 three-bedroom and 231 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 66 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Kilburn below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 43% of occupied dwellings in Kilburn kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 801 dwellings with one vehicle, 554 with two and 298 with three or more. 16.4% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

69.1% of work journeys from Kilburn were made by car on Census day. 3.1% walked or cycled. 5.6% 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 Kilburn is single-person, at 30.4% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 30.4%, with 25.9% of households at four people or more. Across 1,239 families, 43.6% were couples with children, 30.9% couples without and 21.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Kilburn was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $270 a week, below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,472 a month. Median household income ran to $1,179 a week, against $542 for an individual.

Kilburn has a substantial rental base, with 55% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 23.9% mortgaged and 17.9% owned outright. That is 1,109 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Kilburn 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. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40692) 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.