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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 216 residents and recorded 187 private dwellings, with 98 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.

Smoky Bay sits about 490 kilometres north-west of Kangaroo Island. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Ceduna and Streaky Bay give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Smoky Bay is a standalone house: 87 of 94 occupied private dwellings, or 92.6%. A further 4 dwellings, 4.3%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in Smoky Bay is three-bedroom at 45.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 70.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 3 one-bedroom, 19 two-bedroom, 43 three-bedroom and 18 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 5 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Smoky Bay close to the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Smoky Bay is a two-car locality: 73.6% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 21 dwellings with one vehicle, 32 with two and 32 with three or more. Only 4.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

64% of work journeys from Smoky Bay were made by car on Census day. 8.8% walked or cycled. 10.5% 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 Smoky Bay is two-person, at 51.1% of households. 27.7% live alone and 5.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 68 families, 22.1% were couples with children, 67.6% couples without and 4.4% one-parent families.

The median age in Smoky Bay was 57 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $200 a week, about level with the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,000 a month. Median household income ran to $1,237 a week, against $662 for an individual.

Ownership in Smoky Bay is unusually settled: 46.8% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 26.6% carrying a mortgage and 20.2% rented. That is 19 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Smoky Bay 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 weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41348) 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.