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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 859 residents and recorded 569 private dwellings, with 224 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Great Ocean Road, about 246 kilometres away to the west. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Moorak and Mount Gambier give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Port Macdonnell is a standalone house: 338 of 349 occupied private dwellings, or 96.8%.

The commonest home in Port Macdonnell is three-bedroom at 51.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 70.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 10 one-bedroom, 76 two-bedroom, 180 three-bedroom and 58 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 8 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Port Macdonnell close to the Great Ocean Road area median of 78.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Port Macdonnell is a two-car locality: 67.8% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 102 dwellings with one vehicle, 126 with two and 104 with three or more. Only 1.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.3% of work journeys from Port Macdonnell were made by car on Census day. 2.6% walked or cycled. 9.8% 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 Macdonnell is two-person, at 45.6% of households. 29.2% live alone and 15.5% of households hold four people or more. Across 251 families, 25.9% were couples with children, 55% couples without and 14.7% one-parent families.

The median age in Port Macdonnell was 53 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Great Ocean Road area median of 49. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $210 a week, below the $275 median across the Great Ocean Road localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,288 a week, against $762 for an individual.

Ownership in Port Macdonnell is unusually settled: 50.7% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 27.2% carrying a mortgage and 15.8% rented. That is 55 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Port Macdonnell 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41202) 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.