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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 8,125 residents and recorded 2,839 private dwellings, with 138 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Ocean Reef is about 25 kilometres north-west of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Connolly and Heathridge give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Ocean Reef is a standalone house: 2,589 of 2,703 occupied private dwellings, or 95.8%.

Housing in Ocean Reef runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 62.4% of occupied private dwellings, and 96.6% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 22 one-bedroom, 36 two-bedroom, 440 three-bedroom and 1,688 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 484 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ocean Reef close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Ocean Reef is a two-car locality: 76.7% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 584 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,201 with two and 852 with three or more. Only 1.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.2% of work journeys from Ocean Reef were made by car on Census day. 1.1% walked or cycled. 10.1% 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 Ocean Reef is two-person, at 35.1% of households. 12.4% live alone and 34.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,380 families, 51.5% were couples with children, 38% couples without and 10% one-parent families.

The median age in Ocean Reef was 44 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.9 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $525 a week, well above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,253 a month. Median household income ran to $2,480 a week, against $906 for an individual.

Tenure in Ocean Reef split 41.4% owned outright, 44.8% mortgaged and 12.1% rented in 2021. That is 326 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ocean Reef 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51176) 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.