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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 2,035 residents and recorded 910 private dwellings, with 76 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.

Orana lies roughly 281 kilometres south-east of Margaret River. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Lockyer and Yakamia give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 835 occupied private dwellings in Orana, 87.9% are separate houses, 11.6% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Orana is three-bedroom at 61.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 81.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 38 one-bedroom, 100 two-bedroom, 514 three-bedroom and 151 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 15 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Orana close to the Margaret River area median of 82% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 50.6% of occupied dwellings in Orana kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 352 dwellings with one vehicle, 263 with two and 151 with three or more. Only 5.7% recorded no motor vehicle.

77.8% of work journeys from Orana were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 2.3% 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 Orana is single-person, at 35% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 35%, with 19% of households at four people or more. Across 540 families, 31.9% were couples with children, 39.4% couples without and 26.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Orana was 38 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Margaret River area median of 46. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $275 a week, below the $320 median across the Margaret River localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,370 a month. Median household income ran to $989 a week, against $586 for an individual.

Orana has a substantial rental base, with 38% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 29.3% mortgaged and 29.8% owned outright. That is 317 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Orana 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers 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 (SAL51184) 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.