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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 1,490 residents and recorded 857 private dwellings, with 187 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Peterborough, SA sits about 174 kilometres north of Barossa Valley. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Jamestown and Crystal Brook give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Peterborough, SA is a standalone house: 634 of 666 occupied private dwellings, or 95.2%. A further 7 dwellings, 1.1%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Peterborough, SA is three-bedroom at 62.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 74.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 22 one-bedroom, 120 two-bedroom, 414 three-bedroom and 77 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 8 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Peterborough, SA close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 43.9% of occupied dwellings in Peterborough, SA kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 291 dwellings with one vehicle, 176 with two and 109 with three or more. 11.1% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

64.3% of work journeys from Peterborough, SA were made by car on Census day. 8.2% walked or cycled. 6.5% 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 Peterborough, SA is single-person, at 46.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 46.7%, with 9% of households at four people or more. Across 338 families, 18.9% were couples with children, 55.3% couples without and 23.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Peterborough, SA was 55 at the 2021 Census, older than the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $160 a week, below the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $569 a month. Median household income ran to $706 a week, against $456 for an individual.

Ownership in Peterborough, SA is unusually settled: 49.5% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 22.2% carrying a mortgage and 22.8% rented. That is 152 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Peterborough, SA 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41143) 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.