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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 25,591 residents and recorded 11,690 private dwellings, with 1,156 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.

Mount Gambier sits about 247 kilometres west of Great Ocean Road. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Worrolong and Moorak give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 10,528 occupied private dwellings in Mount Gambier, 76.8% are separate houses, 14.1% townhouses and 8.9% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Mount Gambier is three-bedroom at 54% of occupied private dwellings, with 75.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 287 one-bedroom, 2,100 two-bedroom, 5,680 three-bedroom and 2,001 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 278 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Mount Gambier close to the Great Ocean Road area median of 78.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 53.3% of occupied dwellings in Mount Gambier kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 4,037 dwellings with one vehicle, 3,681 with two and 1,851 with three or more. Only 7.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

Mount Gambier is car-dependent on the published numbers: 80.3% of people who travelled to work on Census day went by car. 2.7% walked or cycled. 3.6% 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 Mount Gambier is single-person, at 34.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.9%, with 17.7% of households at four people or more. Across 6,716 families, 35.3% were couples with children, 43.3% couples without and 20% one-parent families.

The median age in Mount Gambier was 41 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Great Ocean Road area median of 49. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $220 a week, below the $275 median across the Great Ocean Road localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,083 a month. Median household income ran to $1,197 a week, against $691 for an individual.

Tenure in Mount Gambier split 30.5% owned outright, 32.2% mortgaged and 32.5% rented in 2021. That is 3,426 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Mount Gambier 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 visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40947) 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.