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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 5,587 residents and recorded 2,233 private dwellings, with 178 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.

Measured in a straight line, Merriwa, WA is about 35 kilometres north-west of Perth. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Ridgewood and Quinns Rocks give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,053 occupied private dwellings in Merriwa, WA, 75.5% are separate houses, 23.6% townhouses and 0.3% flats or apartments.

Housing in Merriwa, WA runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 45.7% of occupied private dwellings, and 84.1% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 27 one-bedroom, 266 two-bedroom, 701 three-bedroom and 938 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 87 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Merriwa, WA close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 48.8% of occupied dwellings in Merriwa, WA kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 864 dwellings with one vehicle, 659 with two and 323 with three or more. Only 7.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.6% of work journeys from Merriwa, WA were made by car on Census day. 1.6% walked or cycled. 5.1% 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 Merriwa, WA is two-person, at 34% of households. 28.6% live alone and 23% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,445 families, 35.7% were couples with children, 37.9% couples without and 24.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Merriwa, WA was 40 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,500 a month. Median household income ran to $1,255 a week, against $636 for an individual.

Tenure in Merriwa, WA split 15.6% owned outright, 41.7% mortgaged and 24% rented in 2021. That is 492 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Merriwa, WA 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 (SAL50939) 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.