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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 4,416 residents and recorded 1,839 private dwellings, with 301 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

South Kalgoorlie lies roughly 550 kilometres east of Perth. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Kalgoorlie and Boulder give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,541 occupied private dwellings in South Kalgoorlie, 83% are separate houses, 15.6% townhouses and 1.1% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in South Kalgoorlie is three-bedroom at 50.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 82.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 50 one-bedroom, 186 two-bedroom, 775 three-bedroom and 435 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 57 with five bedrooms or more. That puts South Kalgoorlie close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

South Kalgoorlie is a two-car locality: 61.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 501 dwellings with one vehicle, 578 with two and 348 with three or more. Only 4.9% recorded no motor vehicle.

77% of work journeys from South Kalgoorlie were made by car on Census day. 3.3% walked or cycled. 1.8% 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 Kalgoorlie is two-person, at 31.1% of households. 28.1% live alone and 26% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,090 families, 45% were couples with children, 35.1% couples without and 17.8% one-parent families.

The median age in South Kalgoorlie was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, below the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,472 a month. Median household income ran to $2,187 a week, against $1,061 for an individual.

South Kalgoorlie has a substantial rental base, with 35.8% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 43.9% mortgaged and 16.7% owned outright. That is 551 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of South Kalgoorlie 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.

Likely trip purposes here include 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 (SAL51373) 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.