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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 3,970 residents and recorded 1,478 private dwellings, with 125 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.

McKail is about 277 kilometres south-east of Margaret River as the crow flies. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Orana and Lockyer give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in McKail is a standalone house: 1,329 of 1,356 occupied private dwellings, or 98%.

Housing in McKail runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 49.6% of occupied private dwellings, and 93.5% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 8 one-bedroom, 63 two-bedroom, 534 three-bedroom and 673 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 61 with five bedrooms or more. That puts McKail above the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

McKail is a two-car locality: 72.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 346 dwellings with one vehicle, 642 with two and 326 with three or more. Only 2.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

McKail is car-dependent on the published numbers: 81.3% of people who travelled to work on Census day went by car. 0.6% walked or cycled. 2.8% 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 McKail is two-person, at 34.2% of households. 19.1% live alone and 30.8% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,075 families, 46.3% were couples with children, 36.7% couples without and 16.1% one-parent families.

The median age in McKail was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.8 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,622 a month. Median household income ran to $1,641 a week, against $786 for an individual.

Tenure in McKail split 25.2% owned outright, 47.6% mortgaged and 24.9% rented in 2021. That is 338 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of McKail 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 supplied locality profile points to regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50920) 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.