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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 15,029 residents and recorded 4,794 private dwellings, with 191 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Fremantle is the closest sizeable market, roughly 18 kilometres to the south-east. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Harrisdale and Treeby give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Piara Waters is a standalone house: 4,530 of 4,598 occupied private dwellings, or 98.5%.

Housing in Piara Waters runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 67.2% of occupied private dwellings, and 98.2% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 43 two-bedroom, 1,232 three-bedroom and 3,090 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 195 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Piara Waters close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Piara Waters is a two-car locality: 76.4% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 1,053 dwellings with one vehicle, 2,627 with two and 860 with three or more. Only 0.7% recorded no motor vehicle.

71.1% of work journeys from Piara Waters were made by car on Census day. 0.6% walked or cycled. 6.3% 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 Piara Waters is four-person, at 30.5% of households. 11.2% live alone and 45.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 4,144 families, 66.7% were couples with children, 23.2% couples without and 9% one-parent families.

The median age in Piara Waters was 31 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 3.2 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $420 a week, above the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,054 a month. Median household income ran to $2,477 a week, against $1,129 for an individual.

Tenure in Piara Waters split 8.1% owned outright, 74.7% mortgaged and 15.9% rented in 2021. That is 730 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Piara Waters 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 local content record supports planning for visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51234) 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.