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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 8,918 residents and recorded 3,815 private dwellings, with 733 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Margaret River is some 2 kilometres south-west of Margaret River. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Gnarabup and Gracetown give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Margaret River is a standalone house: 2,823 of 3,076 occupied private dwellings, or 91.8%.

The commonest home in Margaret River is three-bedroom at 40.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 83.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 92 one-bedroom, 364 two-bedroom, 1,235 three-bedroom and 1,172 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 152 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Margaret River close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Margaret River is a two-car locality: 63.2% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 1,017 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,331 with two and 582 with three or more. Only 3% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.2% of work journeys from Margaret River were made by car on Census day. 5.3% walked or cycled. 10% 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 Margaret River is two-person, at 33.9% of households. 22.6% live alone and 26% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,252 families, 44.4% were couples with children, 38% couples without and 17% one-parent families.

The median age in Margaret River was 39 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, above the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,694 a month. Median household income ran to $1,640 a week, against $839 for an individual.

Tenure in Margaret River split 28.7% owned outright, 41.4% mortgaged and 26.6% rented in 2021. That is 817 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Margaret River 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50903) 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.