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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 3,686 residents and recorded 1,645 private dwellings, with 96 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Morphettville is about 8 kilometres south-west of Adelaide. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Park Holme and Glengowrie give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,552 occupied private dwellings in Morphettville, 55.1% are separate houses, 25.4% townhouses and 19.5% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Morphettville is three-bedroom at 54% of occupied private dwellings, with 67.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 42 one-bedroom, 426 two-bedroom, 838 three-bedroom and 191 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 25 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Morphettville close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 46% of occupied dwellings in Morphettville kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 654 dwellings with one vehicle, 523 with two and 182 with three or more. 11% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

66% of work journeys from Morphettville were made by car on Census day. 3% walked or cycled. 8.4% 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 Morphettville is single-person, at 36.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 36.9%, with 15.3% of households at four people or more. Across 916 families, 37.1% were couples with children, 39.2% couples without and 20.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Morphettville was 39 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,667 a month. Median household income ran to $1,414 a week, against $743 for an individual.

Morphettville has a substantial rental base, with 38% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 35.1% mortgaged and 24.4% owned outright. That is 589 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Morphettville 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40927) 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.