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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 1,580 residents and recorded 570 private dwellings, with 35 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.

On the map, Mount Compass falls about 17 kilometres south of McLaren Vale. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Willunga and Sellicks Beach give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Mount Compass is a standalone house: 521 of 539 occupied private dwellings, or 96.7%.

The commonest home in Mount Compass is three-bedroom at 42.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 90.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 4 one-bedroom, 30 two-bedroom, 228 three-bedroom and 221 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 39 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Mount Compass close to the McLaren Vale area median of 85.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Mount Compass is a two-car locality: 77.4% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 108 dwellings with one vehicle, 246 with two and 166 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

71.5% of work journeys from Mount Compass were made by car on Census day. 1.7% walked or cycled. 9.2% 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 Mount Compass is two-person, at 39.9% of households. 14.7% live alone and 30.4% of households hold four people or more. Across 453 families, 46.4% were couples with children, 43.7% couples without and 9.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Mount Compass was 40 at the 2021 Census, in line with the McLaren Vale area median of 42. Households averaged 2.8 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $340 a week, about level with the $320 median across the McLaren Vale localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,517 a month. Median household income ran to $1,655 a week, against $725 for an individual.

Tenure in Mount Compass split 28.4% owned outright, 57% mortgaged and 11.1% rented in 2021. That is 60 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Mount Compass 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.

Likely trip purposes here include regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40941) 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.