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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 2,151 residents and recorded 867 private dwellings, with 69 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.

Lyndoch is about 8 kilometres south-west of Barossa Valley as the crow flies. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Williamstown, SA and Tanunda give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Lyndoch is a standalone house: 749 of 795 occupied private dwellings, or 94.2%. A further 13 dwellings, 1.6%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Lyndoch is three-bedroom at 48.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 87.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 12 one-bedroom, 66 two-bedroom, 382 three-bedroom and 278 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 39 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Lyndoch close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Lyndoch is a two-car locality: 73.7% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 185 dwellings with one vehicle, 340 with two and 238 with three or more. Only 2.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.7% of work journeys from Lyndoch were made by car on Census day. 2.6% walked or cycled. 10.2% 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 Lyndoch is two-person, at 41.1% of households. 19.2% live alone and 24.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 637 families, 41% were couples with children, 45.7% couples without and 11.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Lyndoch was 44 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $295 a week, above the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,452 a month. Median household income ran to $1,632 a week, against $766 for an individual.

Tenure in Lyndoch split 37.9% owned outright, 44.8% mortgaged and 14.7% rented in 2021. That is 117 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Lyndoch 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40794) 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.