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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 11,328 residents and recorded 5,210 private dwellings, with 525 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.

Measured in a straight line, Mount Lawley is about 3 kilometres north-east of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Highgate, WA and Inglewood give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Mount Lawley carries real density. Flats and apartments are 27.6% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 52.6%, and townhouses 19.7%.

The commonest home in Mount Lawley is three-bedroom at 32% of occupied private dwellings, with 56.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 496 one-bedroom, 1,457 two-bedroom, 1,498 three-bedroom and 881 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 284 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Mount Lawley below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 46.9% of occupied dwellings in Mount Lawley kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 2,094 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,565 with two and 612 with three or more. Only 7.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

54.8% of work journeys from Mount Lawley were made by car on Census day. 5.2% walked or cycled. 10.4% 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 Mount Lawley is two-person, at 35.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.4%, with 16.9% of households at four people or more. Across 2,816 families, 39.7% were couples with children, 47.5% couples without and 11.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Mount Lawley was 38 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,200 a month. Median household income ran to $2,108 a week, against $1,127 for an individual.

Mount Lawley has a substantial rental base, with 36.6% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 31.6% mortgaged and 29.5% owned outright. That is 1,712 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Mount Lawley 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 regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51021) 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.