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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 4,488 residents and recorded 1,648 private dwellings, with 65 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.

On the map, Salisbury Heights falls about 20 kilometres north of Adelaide. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Salisbury Park and Elizabeth Vale give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Salisbury Heights is a standalone house: 1,538 of 1,576 occupied private dwellings, or 97.6%.

The commonest home in Salisbury Heights is three-bedroom at 49.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 96.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 41 two-bedroom, 786 three-bedroom and 597 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 131 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Salisbury Heights above the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Salisbury Heights is a two-car locality: 70.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 417 dwellings with one vehicle, 647 with two and 462 with three or more. Only 2.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

76.2% of work journeys from Salisbury Heights were made by car on Census day. 0.7% 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 Salisbury Heights is two-person, at 33.8% of households. 18.4% live alone and 31.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,312 families, 46.3% were couples with children, 37.3% couples without and 15.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Salisbury Heights was 38 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.8 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,514 a month. Median household income ran to $1,795 a week, against $816 for an individual.

Tenure in Salisbury Heights split 34.5% owned outright, 51.1% mortgaged and 13.3% rented in 2021. That is 210 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Salisbury Heights 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 (SAL41291) 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.