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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 786 residents and recorded 881 private dwellings, with 569 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.

Lancelin is about 109 kilometres north of Rottnest Island as the crow flies. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Ledge Point and Wedge Island give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 311 occupied private dwellings in Lancelin, 84.2% are separate houses, 8.7% townhouses and 5.1% flats or apartments. A further 4 dwellings, 1.3%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Lancelin is three-bedroom at 44.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 75.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 21 one-bedroom, 46 two-bedroom, 139 three-bedroom and 85 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 12 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Lancelin close to the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 57.6% of occupied dwellings in Lancelin kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 116 dwellings with one vehicle, 106 with two and 68 with three or more. Only 3.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

66.9% of work journeys from Lancelin were made by car on Census day. 7.8% walked or cycled. 7.2% 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 Lancelin is two-person, at 40.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 39.5%, with 9% of households at four people or more. Across 164 families, 24.4% were couples with children, 65.2% couples without and 9.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Lancelin was 52 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $253 a week, about level with the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $1,071 a week, against $733 for an individual.

Tenure in Lancelin split 43.1% owned outright, 18.3% mortgaged and 31.8% rented in 2021. That is 99 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Lancelin 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50830) 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.