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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 4,795 residents and recorded 1,816 private dwellings, with 119 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.

Shelley sits about 9 kilometres south of Perth. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for Waterford, WA and Salter Point give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,701 occupied private dwellings in Shelley, 78.3% are separate houses, 21.2% townhouses and 0.2% flats or apartments.

Housing in Shelley runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 39.4% of occupied private dwellings, and 88.6% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 16 one-bedroom, 173 two-bedroom, 639 three-bedroom and 670 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 198 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Shelley close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Shelley is a two-car locality: 67.4% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 500 dwellings with one vehicle, 771 with two and 370 with three or more. Only 3% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.1% of work journeys from Shelley were made by car on Census day. 1% walked or cycled. 8.9% 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 Shelley is two-person, at 32.6% of households. 19.4% live alone and 31.4% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,366 families, 51.3% were couples with children, 36.3% couples without and 11.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Shelley was 42 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $380 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,275 a month. Median household income ran to $2,186 a week, against $898 for an individual.

Tenure in Shelley split 40.9% owned outright, 32.9% mortgaged and 24.4% rented in 2021. That is 415 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Shelley 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers 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 (SAL51345) 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.