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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 14,458 residents and recorded 6,533 private dwellings, with 755 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.

On the map, Port Lincoln falls about 182 kilometres north-west of Kangaroo Island. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Tumby Bay and Coffin Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 5,779 occupied private dwellings in Port Lincoln, 81.7% are separate houses, 11.3% townhouses and 6.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Port Lincoln is three-bedroom at 55.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 77.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 195 one-bedroom, 983 two-bedroom, 3,211 three-bedroom and 1,102 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 163 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Port Lincoln close to the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 55% of occupied dwellings in Port Lincoln kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 2,115 dwellings with one vehicle, 2,142 with two and 970 with three or more. Only 7.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

77.7% of work journeys from Port Lincoln were made by car on Census day. 3.5% walked or cycled. 4.1% 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 Port Lincoln is two-person, at 36.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 32.3%, with 17.8% of households at four people or more. Across 3,766 families, 34.8% were couples with children, 44.2% couples without and 19.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Port Lincoln was 41 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $240 a week, above the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,243 a week, against $717 for an individual.

Tenure in Port Lincoln split 31.5% owned outright, 30.5% mortgaged and 33.8% rented in 2021. That is 1,954 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Port Lincoln 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41201) 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.