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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 5,043 residents and recorded 1,694 private dwellings, with 127 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.

On the map, Northfield falls about 9 kilometres north of Adelaide. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Northgate, SA and Clearview give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,573 occupied private dwellings in Northfield, 80.6% are separate houses, 16.8% townhouses and 2.4% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Northfield is three-bedroom at 66% of occupied private dwellings, with 78.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 27 one-bedroom, 268 two-bedroom, 1,038 three-bedroom and 171 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 24 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Northfield close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.9% of occupied dwellings in Northfield kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 563 dwellings with one vehicle, 581 with two and 233 with three or more. 10.8% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

72.2% of work journeys from Northfield were made by car on Census day. 1.5% walked or cycled. 6.6% 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 Northfield is single-person, at 28.4% of households. 28.4% live alone and 26.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,083 families, 51.2% were couples with children, 27.6% couples without and 17.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Northfield was 35 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $307 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,580 a month. Median household income ran to $1,420 a week, against $679 for an individual.

Northfield has a substantial rental base, with 40.6% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 36.3% mortgaged and 19.9% owned outright. That is 638 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Northfield 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. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41050) 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.