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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 268 residents and recorded 364 private dwellings, with 252 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Preston Beach is about 90 kilometres south of Fremantle as the crow flies. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Waroona and Dawesville give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Preston Beach is a standalone house: 106 of 111 occupied private dwellings, or 95.5%.

The commonest home in Preston Beach is three-bedroom at 45.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 76.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 28 two-bedroom, 51 three-bedroom and 26 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 8 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Preston Beach below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 52.3% of occupied dwellings in Preston Beach kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 47 dwellings with one vehicle, 43 with two and 15 with three or more. Only 2.7% recorded no motor vehicle.

60.6% of work journeys from Preston Beach were made by car on Census day. 4.2% walked or cycled. 7% 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 Preston Beach is two-person, at 51.4% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 39.6%, and no household counted four people or more. Across 60 families, 20% were couples with children, 85% couples without and 8.3% one-parent families.

The median age in Preston Beach was 62 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $250 a week, below the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,138 a month. Median household income ran to $850 a week, against $510 for an individual.

Ownership in Preston Beach is unusually settled: 52.3% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 25.2% carrying a mortgage and 18.9% rented. That is 21 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Preston Beach 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51262) 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.