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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 3,948 residents and recorded 1,966 private dwellings, with 222 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 10 kilometres away to the south-west. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Marion and Warradale give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,742 occupied private dwellings in Oaklands Park, 43.9% are separate houses, 49% townhouses and 7.2% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Oaklands Park is three-bedroom at 49.4% of occupied private dwellings, with 58.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 107 one-bedroom, 597 two-bedroom, 860 three-bedroom and 138 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 16 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Oaklands Park below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 36.6% of occupied dwellings in Oaklands Park kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 823 dwellings with one vehicle, 462 with two and 170 with three or more. 15.9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

61.3% of work journeys from Oaklands Park were made by car on Census day. 3.5% walked or cycled. 9.3% 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 Oaklands Park is single-person, at 39.8% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 39.8%, with 13% of households at four people or more. Across 945 families, 31% were couples with children, 45.3% couples without and 21.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Oaklands Park was 39 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,625 a month. Median household income ran to $1,208 a week, against $648 for an individual.

Oaklands Park has a substantial rental base, with 48% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 26.2% mortgaged and 22.1% owned outright. That is 837 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Oaklands Park 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41067) 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.