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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 3,671 residents and recorded 1,536 private dwellings, with 340 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Barossa Valley is the closest sizeable market, roughly 481 kilometres to the north-west. It decides which regional photograph this page carries and nothing else; journey advice has to come from current maps and the host. The nearby guides for Andamooka and Woomera give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Roxby Downs is a standalone house: 1,156 of 1,195 occupied private dwellings, or 96.7%.

The commonest home in Roxby Downs is three-bedroom at 42.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 80% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 46 one-bedroom, 169 two-bedroom, 513 three-bedroom and 387 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 56 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Roxby Downs close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Roxby Downs is a two-car locality: 71.1% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 312 dwellings with one vehicle, 525 with two and 308 with three or more. Only 2.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

74.1% of work journeys from Roxby Downs were made by car on Census day. 4.2% walked or cycled. 2.9% 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 Roxby Downs is two-person, at 28.5% of households. 24.1% live alone and 31% of households hold four people or more. Across 858 families, 56.3% were couples with children, 32.1% couples without and 10.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Roxby Downs was 30 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $260 a week, above the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,517 a month. Median household income ran to $3,142 a week, against $1,747 for an individual.

Roxby Downs has a substantial rental base, with 67.1% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 21.7% mortgaged and 6.5% owned outright. That is 802 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Roxby Downs 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. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41281) 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.