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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 7,246 residents and recorded 3,030 private dwellings, with 186 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Strathalbyn is some 30 kilometres east of McLaren Vale. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Macclesfield and Meadows give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Strathalbyn is a standalone house: 2,652 of 2,838 occupied private dwellings, or 93.4%.

The commonest home in Strathalbyn is three-bedroom at 49.9% of occupied private dwellings, with 86.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 39 one-bedroom, 295 two-bedroom, 1,415 three-bedroom and 923 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 116 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Strathalbyn close to the McLaren Vale area median of 85.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Strathalbyn is a two-car locality: 63.5% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 903 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,056 with two and 724 with three or more. Only 3.7% recorded no motor vehicle.

71.1% of work journeys from Strathalbyn were made by car on Census day. 2.6% walked or cycled. 8.9% 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 Strathalbyn is two-person, at 40.2% of households. 26.5% live alone and 20.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 2,072 families, 35.3% were couples with children, 47.8% couples without and 16% one-parent families.

The median age in Strathalbyn was 47 at the 2021 Census, in line with the McLaren Vale area median of 42. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $300 a week, about level with the $320 median across the McLaren Vale localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,500 a month. Median household income ran to $1,254 a week, against $641 for an individual.

Tenure in Strathalbyn split 38.8% owned outright, 37.9% mortgaged and 20% rented in 2021. That is 568 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Strathalbyn 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41395) 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.