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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 135 residents and recorded 236 private dwellings, with 179 unoccupied on Census night. This baseline helps size the resident setting, but it cannot reveal listing quality, seasonality, conversion or stay intent. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The Pines is about 100 kilometres north of Kangaroo Island as the crow flies. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Corny Point and Point Turton give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in The Pines is a standalone house: 54 of 55 occupied private dwellings, or 98.2%.

The commonest home in The Pines is three-bedroom at 47.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 60% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 5 one-bedroom, 8 two-bedroom, 26 three-bedroom and 7 four-bedroom dwellings. That puts The Pines below the Kangaroo Island area median of 70.4% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 45.5% of occupied dwellings in The Pines kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 21 dwellings with one vehicle, 20 with two and 5 with three or more. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

63.2% of work journeys from The Pines were made by car on Census day. 7.9% walked or cycled. 18.4% 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 The Pines is single-person, at 52.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 52.7%, with 10.9% of households at four people or more. Across 27 families, 22.2% were couples with children, 77.8% couples without and 0% one-parent families.

The median age in The Pines was 57 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Kangaroo Island area median of 57. Households averaged 1.7 people and 0.6 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $120 a week, well below the $210 median across the Kangaroo Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $722 a month. Median household income ran to $619 a week, against $488 for an individual.

Ownership in The Pines is unusually settled: 58.2% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 25.5% carrying a mortgage and 7.3% rented. That is 4 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of The Pines 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 supplied locality profile points to weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41441) 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.