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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 2,803 residents and recorded 885 private dwellings, with 41 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.

Fremantle is the closest sizeable market, roughly 24 kilometres to the south-east. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Wandi and Hilbert give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Oakford is a standalone house: 837 of 848 occupied private dwellings, or 98.7%.

Housing in Oakford runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 58.4% of occupied private dwellings, and 95.6% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 22 two-bedroom, 99 three-bedroom and 495 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 217 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Oakford close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Oakford is a two-car locality: 89.8% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 79 dwellings with one vehicle, 277 with two and 478 with three or more. Only 0.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.4% of work journeys from Oakford were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 11.8% 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 Oakford is two-person, at 31.8% of households. 10% live alone and 39.9% of households hold four people or more. Across 806 families, 53.8% were couples with children, 37.5% couples without and 8.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Oakford was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 3.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $400 a week, above the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,500 a month. Median household income ran to $2,451 a week, against $832 for an individual.

Tenure in Oakford split 33.6% owned outright, 58.3% mortgaged and 5% rented in 2021. That is 42 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Oakford 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish 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 (SAL51174) 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.