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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 2,319 residents and recorded 1,031 private dwellings, with 79 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.

Straight-line, Melrose Park, SA is some 7 kilometres south of Adelaide. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Daw Park and Edwardstown give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 949 occupied private dwellings in Melrose Park, SA, 74.6% are separate houses, 11.6% townhouses and 14.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Melrose Park, SA is three-bedroom at 48.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 66.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 54 one-bedroom, 254 two-bedroom, 461 three-bedroom and 145 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 21 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Melrose Park, SA close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.8% of occupied dwellings in Melrose Park, SA kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 334 dwellings with one vehicle, 341 with two and 154 with three or more. 11.7% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

64.5% of work journeys from Melrose Park, SA were made by car on Census day. 4.9% walked or cycled. 10.9% 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 Melrose Park, SA is single-person, at 34.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.2%, with 22.9% of households at four people or more. Across 601 families, 45.3% were couples with children, 35.9% couples without and 16.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Melrose Park, SA was 38 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,900 a month. Median household income ran to $1,583 a week, against $832 for an individual.

Tenure in Melrose Park, SA split 29.2% owned outright, 36.8% mortgaged and 24.8% rented in 2021. That is 235 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Melrose Park, SA 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. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40857) 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.