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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 1,452 residents and recorded 837 private dwellings, with 243 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Rottnest Island is the closest sizeable market, roughly 307 kilometres to the north. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Dongara and Wandina give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 599 occupied private dwellings in Port Denison, 79.6% are separate houses, 17.7% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments. A further 16 dwellings, 2.7%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Port Denison is three-bedroom at 40.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 80.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 29 one-bedroom, 74 two-bedroom, 245 three-bedroom and 215 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 20 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Port Denison close to the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.9% of occupied dwellings in Port Denison kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 240 dwellings with one vehicle, 214 with two and 94 with three or more. Only 5.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

65% of work journeys from Port Denison were made by car on Census day. 3.8% walked or cycled. 7.5% 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 Port Denison is two-person, at 41.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 37.4%, with 11.2% of households at four people or more. Across 369 families, 27.1% were couples with children, 56.4% couples without and 15.2% one-parent families.

The median age in Port Denison was 56 at the 2021 Census, older than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $250 a week, about level with the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,517 a month. Median household income ran to $1,027 a week, against $617 for an individual.

Tenure in Port Denison split 44.7% owned outright, 19% mortgaged and 28.9% rented in 2021. That is 173 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Port Denison 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 supplied locality profile points to regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51258) 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.