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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 5,110 residents and recorded 2,461 private dwellings, with 320 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Millicent is about 293 kilometres north-west of Great Ocean Road as the crow flies. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Moorak and Mount Gambier give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,136 occupied private dwellings in Millicent, 86% are separate houses, 8.5% townhouses and 5.3% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Millicent is three-bedroom at 61% of occupied private dwellings, with 82.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 48 one-bedroom, 297 two-bedroom, 1,304 three-bedroom and 384 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 67 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Millicent close to the Great Ocean Road area median of 78.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 56.4% of occupied dwellings in Millicent kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 774 dwellings with one vehicle, 704 with two and 479 with three or more. Only 6.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

76.3% of work journeys from Millicent were made by car on Census day. 3.5% walked or cycled. 5.5% 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 Millicent is two-person, at 36.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 36.1%, with 16.8% of households at four people or more. Across 1,350 families, 32.6% were couples with children, 49% couples without and 16.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Millicent was 49 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Great Ocean Road area median of 49. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $175 a week, well below the $275 median across the Great Ocean Road localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $902 a month. Median household income ran to $980 a week, against $556 for an individual.

Tenure in Millicent split 41.6% owned outright, 30.8% mortgaged and 25% rented in 2021. That is 533 rented dwellings in the locality count.

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

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40878) 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.