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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 829 residents and recorded 445 private dwellings, with 186 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Broome, about 848 kilometres away to the south-west. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Exmouth and Dampier give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 253 occupied private dwellings in Onslow, 84.6% are separate houses, 4.7% townhouses and 6.3% flats or apartments. A further 10 dwellings, 4%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Onslow is three-bedroom at 40.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 72.3% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 16 one-bedroom, 43 two-bedroom, 102 three-bedroom and 81 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts Onslow close to the Broome area median of 77.1% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Onslow is a two-car locality: 61.8% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 78 dwellings with one vehicle, 100 with two and 55 with three or more. Only 5.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.6% of work journeys from Onslow were made by car on Census day. 11.3% walked or cycled. 3.4% 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 Onslow is two-person, at 38.7% of households. 23.3% live alone and 23.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 193 families, 43% were couples with children, 47.2% couples without and 9.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Onslow was 35 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Broome area median of 33. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $240 a week, below the $300 median across the Broome localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,825 a month. Median household income ran to $2,596 a week, against $1,386 for an individual.

Onslow has a substantial rental base, with 53% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 6.3% mortgaged and 14.2% owned outright. That is 134 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Onslow 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.

The supplied locality profile points to weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51181) 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.