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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 163 residents and recorded 220 private dwellings, with 145 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Margaret River is the closest sizeable market, roughly 37 kilometres to the south. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Augusta and Gnarabup give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Every occupied private dwelling counted in Molloy Island is a standalone house, all 80 of them.

The commonest home in Molloy Island is three-bedroom at 48.8% of occupied private dwellings, with 82.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 19 two-bedroom, 39 three-bedroom and 21 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 6 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Molloy Island close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 48.6% of occupied dwellings in Molloy Island kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 35 dwellings with one vehicle, 27 with two and 9 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

42.2% of work journeys from Molloy Island were made by car on Census day. 13.3% walked or cycled. 15.6% 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 Molloy Island is two-person, at 57.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33.8%, and no household counted four people or more. Across 50 families, 6% were couples with children, 78% couples without and 8% one-parent families.

The median age in Molloy Island was 63 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 1.7 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $275 a week, below the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,094 a month. Median household income ran to $866 a week, against $486 for an individual.

Ownership in Molloy Island is unusually settled: 58.8% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 12.5% carrying a mortgage and 17.5% rented. That is 14 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Molloy Island 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL50978) 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.