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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 4,304 residents and recorded 1,875 private dwellings, with 105 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 15 kilometres away to the north-east. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for St Agnes and Redwood Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,768 occupied private dwellings in Ridgehaven, 73.4% are separate houses, 6% townhouses and 20.5% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Ridgehaven is three-bedroom at 58.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 76.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 44 one-bedroom, 352 two-bedroom, 1,042 three-bedroom and 255 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 48 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ridgehaven close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 50% of occupied dwellings in Ridgehaven kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 732 dwellings with one vehicle, 615 with two and 260 with three or more. Only 7.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

67.4% of work journeys from Ridgehaven were made by car on Census day. 2.1% walked or cycled. 7.4% 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 Ridgehaven is two-person, at 35.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 31.6%, with 18.9% of households at four people or more. Across 1,200 families, 37.3% were couples with children, 43% couples without and 17.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Ridgehaven was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,436 a month. Median household income ran to $1,307 a week, against $688 for an individual.

Tenure in Ridgehaven split 30.9% owned outright, 39.3% mortgaged and 21.8% rented in 2021. That is 385 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ridgehaven 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41257) 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.