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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 350 residents and recorded 462 private dwellings, with 306 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.

Point Turton lies roughly 98 kilometres north of Kangaroo Island. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for The Pines and Corny Point give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Point Turton is a standalone house: 153 of 158 occupied private dwellings, or 96.8%.

The commonest home in Point Turton is three-bedroom at 50% of occupied private dwellings, with 77.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 5 one-bedroom, 26 two-bedroom, 79 three-bedroom and 38 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 5 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Point Turton close to the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Point Turton is a two-car locality: 66.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 48 dwellings with one vehicle, 68 with two and 37 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

66.4% of work journeys from Point Turton were made by car on Census day. 6.1% walked or cycled. 12.2% 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 Point Turton is two-person, at 48.7% of households. 28.5% live alone and 12% of households hold four people or more. Across 102 families, 28.4% were couples with children, 72.5% couples without and 7.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Point Turton was 61 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 2 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $210 a week, about level with the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,408 a month. Median household income ran to $1,050 a week, against $537 for an individual.

Ownership in Point Turton is unusually settled: 60.1% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 27.8% carrying a mortgage and 11.4% rented. That is 18 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Point Turton 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41175) 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.