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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 3,398 residents and recorded 1,593 private dwellings, with 153 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.

South Fremantle is about 2 kilometres south-east of Fremantle as the crow flies. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Beaconsfield, WA and White Gum Valley give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,438 occupied private dwellings in South Fremantle, 57.3% are separate houses, 20.2% townhouses and 12.1% flats or apartments. A further 126 dwellings, 8.8%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

The commonest home in South Fremantle is three-bedroom at 39.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 57.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 192 one-bedroom, 385 two-bedroom, 564 three-bedroom and 227 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 34 with five bedrooms or more. That puts South Fremantle below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 48.1% of occupied dwellings in South Fremantle kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 645 dwellings with one vehicle, 480 with two and 204 with three or more. Only 7.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

52.7% of work journeys from South Fremantle were made by car on Census day. 8.7% 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 South Fremantle is two-person, at 38.2% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33%, with 15.3% of households at four people or more. Across 893 families, 34.9% were couples with children, 51.4% couples without and 12.1% one-parent families.

The median age in South Fremantle was 48 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $450 a week, above the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,249 a month. Median household income ran to $1,914 a week, against $963 for an individual.

Ownership in South Fremantle is unusually settled: 45.2% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 25.2% carrying a mortgage and 27.8% rented. That is 400 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of South Fremantle 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.

The local content record supports planning for regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51368) 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.