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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 11,046 residents and recorded 4,330 private dwellings, with 952 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

South Hedland sits about 469 kilometres south-west of Broome. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Port Hedland and Wickham, WA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 3,377 occupied private dwellings in South Hedland, 71.6% are separate houses, 21.3% townhouses and 6% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in South Hedland is three-bedroom at 48.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 77.1% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 276 one-bedroom, 417 two-bedroom, 1,623 three-bedroom and 890 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 90 with five bedrooms or more. That puts South Hedland close to the Broome area median of 77.1% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

South Hedland is a two-car locality: 63% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 1,005 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,367 with two and 711 with three or more. Only 6.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

78.7% of work journeys from South Hedland were made by car on Census day. 2.3% walked or cycled. 2.2% 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 Hedland is two-person, at 29.3% of households. 25.3% live alone and 29% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,479 families, 48.2% were couples with children, 32.4% couples without and 17% one-parent families.

The median age in South Hedland was 32 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Broome area median of 33. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.9 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $240 a week, below the $300 median across the Broome localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,387 a month. Median household income ran to $2,586 a week, against $1,415 for an individual.

South Hedland has a substantial rental base, with 67.3% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 18.9% mortgaged and 6.9% owned outright. That is 2,274 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of South Hedland 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. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51372) 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.