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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 4,368 residents and recorded 2,236 private dwellings, with 401 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Shoalwater lies roughly 27 kilometres south of Fremantle. The figure gives orientation without establishing drive time, service coverage or administrative inclusion. The nearby guides for Safety Bay and Rockingham give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,836 occupied private dwellings in Shoalwater, 76.6% are separate houses, 6.6% townhouses and 16.2% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Shoalwater is three-bedroom at 37.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 72.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 66 one-bedroom, 418 two-bedroom, 683 three-bedroom and 584 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 66 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Shoalwater below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 49.5% of occupied dwellings in Shoalwater kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 780 dwellings with one vehicle, 637 with two and 259 with three or more. Only 7.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

64.2% of work journeys from Shoalwater were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 7.7% 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 Shoalwater is single-person, at 39.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 39.2%, with 15.6% of households at four people or more. Across 1,083 families, 35% were couples with children, 46.3% couples without and 16.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Shoalwater was 49 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $260 a week, below the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,668 a month. Median household income ran to $1,225 a week, against $679 for an individual.

Tenure in Shoalwater split 35.5% owned outright, 29.1% mortgaged and 33.3% rented in 2021. That is 612 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Shoalwater 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51348) 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.