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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 4,541 residents and recorded 2,090 private dwellings, with 195 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Adelaide, about 12 kilometres away to the north-west. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for West Lakes Shore and Ethelton give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,891 occupied private dwellings in Semaphore Park, 53.9% are separate houses, 39.8% townhouses and 5.2% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Semaphore Park is three-bedroom at 56.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 70.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 78 one-bedroom, 435 two-bedroom, 1,069 three-bedroom and 232 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 39 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Semaphore Park close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 47.6% of occupied dwellings in Semaphore Park kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 778 dwellings with one vehicle, 642 with two and 243 with three or more. 10.3% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

69.3% of work journeys from Semaphore Park were made by car on Census day. 1.6% walked or cycled. 10.9% 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 Semaphore Park is single-person, at 36.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 36.5%, with 16.1% of households at four people or more. Across 1,173 families, 35.9% were couples with children, 40.3% couples without and 21.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Semaphore Park was 46 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $250 a week, below the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,786 a month. Median household income ran to $1,262 a week, against $656 for an individual.

Semaphore Park has a substantial rental base, with 37.4% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 28.9% mortgaged and 29.7% owned outright. That is 707 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Semaphore Park 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. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41330) 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.