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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 6,296 residents and recorded 2,395 private dwellings, with 99 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.

On the map, Salisbury Downs falls about 18 kilometres north of Adelaide. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Salisbury, SA and Parafield Gardens give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,294 occupied private dwellings in Salisbury Downs, 79.3% are separate houses, 13.4% townhouses and 6.9% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Salisbury Downs is three-bedroom at 62.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 82.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 93 one-bedroom, 280 two-bedroom, 1,430 three-bedroom and 405 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 59 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Salisbury Downs close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 53.9% of occupied dwellings in Salisbury Downs kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 838 dwellings with one vehicle, 807 with two and 407 with three or more. 9% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

76.2% of work journeys from Salisbury Downs were made by car on Census day. 1.3% walked or cycled. 5% 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 Salisbury Downs is two-person, at 29.5% of households. 28.4% live alone and 25.1% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,630 families, 42.9% were couples with children, 30.3% couples without and 24.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Salisbury Downs was 37 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $273 a week, below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,134 a week, against $535 for an individual.

Salisbury Downs has a substantial rental base, with 35.3% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 34.9% mortgaged and 27.7% owned outright. That is 809 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Salisbury 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.

The draft guest-purpose brief identifies regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41289) 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.