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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 2,783 residents and recorded 1,076 private dwellings, with 58 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Ottoway is about 11 kilometres north-west of Adelaide as the crow flies. It decides which regional photograph this page carries and nothing else; journey advice has to come from current maps and the host. The nearby guides for Athol Park and Pennington give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,016 occupied private dwellings in Ottoway, 73.6% are separate houses, 22.4% townhouses and 3.6% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Ottoway is three-bedroom at 52.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 69.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 23 one-bedroom, 274 two-bedroom, 534 three-bedroom and 145 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 28 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ottoway close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 55.8% of occupied dwellings in Ottoway kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 348 dwellings with one vehicle, 348 with two and 211 with three or more. 9.8% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

75.6% of work journeys from Ottoway were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 3.9% 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 Ottoway is single-person, at 28.7% of households. 28.7% live alone and 25.6% of households hold four people or more. Across 713 families, 43.6% were couples with children, 27.3% couples without and 24.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Ottoway was 37 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $275 a week, below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,408 a month. Median household income ran to $1,221 a week, against $555 for an individual.

Tenure in Ottoway split 26.5% owned outright, 35.8% mortgaged and 33.6% rented in 2021. That is 341 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ottoway 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. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41081) 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.