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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 15,043 residents and recorded 6,697 private dwellings, with 702 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Murray Bridge is some 64 kilometres east of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Nairne and Mount Barker, SA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 5,998 occupied private dwellings in Murray Bridge, 85% are separate houses, 13.4% townhouses and 0.6% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Murray Bridge is three-bedroom at 56% of occupied private dwellings, with 78.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 220 one-bedroom, 958 two-bedroom, 3,357 three-bedroom and 1,183 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 145 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Murray Bridge close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 49.4% of occupied dwellings in Murray Bridge kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 2,445 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,877 with two and 1,023 with three or more. 8.9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

78.9% of work journeys from Murray Bridge were made by car on Census day. 3.5% walked or cycled. 3.7% 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 Murray Bridge is single-person, at 34.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.9%, with 17.5% of households at four people or more. Across 3,782 families, 32.5% were couples with children, 43.1% couples without and 22.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Murray Bridge was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $240 a week, below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,083 a month. Median household income ran to $1,005 a week, against $574 for an individual.

Murray Bridge has a substantial rental base, with 39.8% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 26.6% mortgaged and 28.3% owned outright. That is 2,387 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Murray Bridge 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 local content record supports planning for visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL40987) 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.