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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 2,050 residents and recorded 974 private dwellings, with 258 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.

On the map, Pegs Creek falls about 645 kilometres south-west of Broome. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Millars Well and Bulgarra give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 715 occupied private dwellings in Pegs Creek, 58.6% are separate houses, 20% townhouses and 20% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Pegs Creek is three-bedroom at 39.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 62.7% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 93 one-bedroom, 154 two-bedroom, 283 three-bedroom and 144 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 21 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Pegs Creek below the Broome area median of 77.1% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 56.3% of occupied dwellings in Pegs Creek kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 270 dwellings with one vehicle, 258 with two and 132 with three or more. Only 4.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

75.9% of work journeys from Pegs Creek were made by car on Census day. 6.6% walked or cycled. 2.1% 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 Pegs Creek is single-person, at 34.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 34.7%, with 21.1% of households at four people or more. Across 446 families, 43% were couples with children, 41.5% couples without and 14.1% one-parent families.

The median age in Pegs Creek was 33 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Broome area median of 33. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $367 a week, above the $300 median across the Broome localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $2,420 a week, against $1,451 for an individual.

Pegs Creek has a substantial rental base, with 57.2% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 28.4% mortgaged and 7.6% owned outright. That is 409 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Pegs Creek 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. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51222) 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.