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The 2021 Census counted 2,604 residents and recorded 1,211 private dwellings, with 233 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, Merredin is some 236 kilometres east of Perth. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Wyalkatchem and Southern Cross give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Merredin is a standalone house: 927 of 978 occupied private dwellings, or 94.8%.

The commonest home in Merredin is three-bedroom at 47.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 78.3% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 37 one-bedroom, 141 two-bedroom, 465 three-bedroom and 256 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 45 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Merredin close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 57.8% of occupied dwellings in Merredin kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 349 dwellings with one vehicle, 353 with two and 199 with three or more. Only 6.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

73% of work journeys from Merredin were made by car on Census day. 6.8% walked or cycled. 3.7% 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 Merredin is two-person, at 35.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33%, with 17.7% of households at four people or more. Across 632 families, 38.6% were couples with children, 44.9% couples without and 15.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Merredin was 40 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $220 a week, well below the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,074 a month. Median household income ran to $1,396 a week, against $756 for an individual.

Tenure in Merredin split 30.9% owned outright, 32% mortgaged and 32.1% rented in 2021. That is 314 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Merredin 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 (SAL50938) 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.