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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 1,844 residents and recorded 906 private dwellings, with 88 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

McLaren Vale is the closest sizeable market, roughly 12 kilometres to the north-west. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Christies Beach and Christie Downs give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in O’Sullivan Beach is a standalone house: 763 of 816 occupied private dwellings, or 93.5%.

The commonest home in O’Sullivan Beach is three-bedroom at 74.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 85.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 21 one-bedroom, 74 two-bedroom, 606 three-bedroom and 84 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 11 with five bedrooms or more. That puts O’Sullivan Beach close to the McLaren Vale area median of 85.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 50.3% of occupied dwellings in O’Sullivan Beach kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 345 dwellings with one vehicle, 273 with two and 127 with three or more. Only 7% recorded no motor vehicle.

70.8% of work journeys from O’Sullivan Beach were made by car on Census day. 1.1% walked or cycled. 7.9% 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 O’Sullivan Beach is two-person, at 37.6% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33.1%, with 13.1% of households at four people or more. Across 515 families, 31.3% were couples with children, 41.7% couples without and 26.4% one-parent families.

The median age in O’Sullivan Beach was 44 at the 2021 Census, in line with the McLaren Vale area median of 42. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, about level with the $320 median across the McLaren Vale localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,200 a month. Median household income ran to $1,072 a week, against $599 for an individual.

Tenure in O’Sullivan Beach split 33.6% owned outright, 34.8% mortgaged and 29.3% rented in 2021. That is 239 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of O’Sullivan Beach 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around 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 (SAL41062) 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.