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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 4,638 residents and recorded 1,935 private dwellings, with 153 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Shenton Park sits about 6 kilometres west of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Daglish and Jolimont give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,776 occupied private dwellings in Shenton Park, 67.2% are separate houses, 13.5% townhouses and 19.3% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Shenton Park is three-bedroom at 39.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 66.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 154 one-bedroom, 429 two-bedroom, 701 three-bedroom and 383 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 90 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Shenton Park below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 45% of occupied dwellings in Shenton Park kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 837 dwellings with one vehicle, 607 with two and 186 with three or more. Only 7.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

49.2% of work journeys from Shenton Park were made by car on Census day. 11.3% walked or cycled. 13.2% 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 Shenton Park is single-person, at 31.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 31.5%, with 24.5% of households at four people or more. Across 1,159 families, 50% were couples with children, 35.5% couples without and 13.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Shenton Park was 41 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $420 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,980 a month. Median household income ran to $2,313 a week, against $1,145 for an individual.

Tenure in Shenton Park split 36.7% owned outright, 27.5% mortgaged and 31.8% rented in 2021. That is 565 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Shenton 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51346) 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.