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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 4,623 residents and recorded 1,725 private dwellings, with 116 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.

Ridgewood sits about 35 kilometres north of Perth. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Merriwa, WA and Quinns Rocks give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Ridgewood is a standalone house: 1,538 of 1,604 occupied private dwellings, or 95.9%.

Housing in Ridgewood runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 53.1% of occupied private dwellings, and 84% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 13 one-bedroom, 226 two-bedroom, 409 three-bedroom and 852 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 86 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Ridgewood close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 57.2% of occupied dwellings in Ridgewood kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 598 dwellings with one vehicle, 609 with two and 295 with three or more. Only 4.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

66.4% of work journeys from Ridgewood were made by car on Census day. 0.4% walked or cycled. 5.6% 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 Ridgewood is two-person, at 32.8% of households. 21.4% live alone and 29.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,273 families, 44.5% were couples with children, 35.2% couples without and 18.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Ridgewood was 36 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,760 a month. Median household income ran to $1,554 a week, against $718 for an individual.

Tenure in Ridgewood split 14% owned outright, 50% mortgaged and 25.7% rented in 2021. That is 413 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Ridgewood 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51296) 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.