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For grounded demographic context, the 2021 source counted 23,665 residents and recorded 8,913 private dwellings, with 508 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Thornlie lies roughly 15 kilometres south-east of Perth. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Huntingdale, WA and Langford give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Thornlie is a standalone house: 7,654 of 8,401 occupied private dwellings, or 91.1%.

Housing in Thornlie runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 45.4% of occupied private dwellings, and 92% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 56 one-bedroom, 499 two-bedroom, 3,347 three-bedroom and 3,810 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 574 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Thornlie close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Thornlie is a two-car locality: 63.3% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 2,718 dwellings with one vehicle, 3,336 with two and 1,920 with three or more. Only 4% recorded no motor vehicle.

72% of work journeys from Thornlie were made by car on Census day. 0.9% walked or cycled. 4.6% 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 Thornlie is two-person, at 33.7% of households. 21% live alone and 27.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 6,590 families, 45.5% were couples with children, 36.1% couples without and 16.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Thornlie was 38 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,625 a month. Median household income ran to $1,571 a week, against $682 for an individual.

Tenure in Thornlie split 33.3% owned outright, 42.6% mortgaged and 21.1% rented in 2021. That is 1,775 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Thornlie 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 evidence-led starting mix is visiting friends and family, work or project stays and events and short city breaks. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51448) 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.