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The 2021 Census counted 2,913 residents and recorded 983 private dwellings, with 65 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Salter Point is some 8 kilometres south of Perth. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Manning and Rossmoyne give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 918 occupied private dwellings in Salter Point, 85% are separate houses, 8% townhouses and 7.4% flats or apartments.

Housing in Salter Point runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 43.5% of occupied private dwellings, and 87.4% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 6 one-bedroom, 108 two-bedroom, 281 three-bedroom and 399 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 122 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Salter Point close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Salter Point is a two-car locality: 69.4% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 254 dwellings with one vehicle, 386 with two and 250 with three or more. Only 2.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.3% of work journeys from Salter Point were made by car on Census day. 2.4% walked or cycled. 12.1% 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 Salter Point is two-person, at 33.9% of households. 20.9% live alone and 28% of households hold four people or more. Across 720 families, 49.7% were couples with children, 38.5% couples without and 9.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Salter Point was 47 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $450 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,860 a month. Median household income ran to $2,529 a week, against $878 for an individual.

Ownership in Salter Point is unusually settled: 45.9% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 34.4% carrying a mortgage and 12.2% rented. That is 112 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Salter Point 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 local content record supports planning for regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51321) 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.