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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 1,605 residents and recorded 815 private dwellings, with 80 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Adelaide is the closest sizeable market, roughly 5 kilometres to the east. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Tusmore and Hazelwood Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Leabrook carries real density. Flats and apartments are 26.3% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 40.3%, and townhouses 32.9%.

Leabrook is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 41.9% of occupied private dwellings, and 51.7% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 72 one-bedroom, 308 two-bedroom, 154 three-bedroom and 134 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 49 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Leabrook well below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 40.8% of occupied dwellings in Leabrook kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 350 dwellings with one vehicle, 203 with two and 93 with three or more. 10.3% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

61.8% of work journeys from Leabrook were made by car on Census day. 6.3% walked or cycled. 16.7% 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 Leabrook is single-person, at 44.1% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 44.1%, with 16.1% of households at four people or more. Across 410 families, 38% were couples with children, 51.5% couples without and 9.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Leabrook was 55 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $308 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,140 a month. Median household income ran to $1,693 a week, against $966 for an individual.

Tenure in Leabrook split 39.5% owned outright, 21% mortgaged and 20.7% rented in 2021. That is 152 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Leabrook 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 regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40753) 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.