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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 2,604 residents and recorded 1,095 private dwellings, with 81 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.

On the map, Toorak Gardens falls about 3 kilometres east of Adelaide. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Dulwich and Rose Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,022 occupied private dwellings in Toorak Gardens, 65.1% are separate houses, 30.2% townhouses and 4.7% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Toorak Gardens is three-bedroom at 31.4% of occupied private dwellings, with 68.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 100 one-bedroom, 215 two-bedroom, 321 three-bedroom and 293 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 83 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Toorak Gardens close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 59.3% of occupied dwellings in Toorak Gardens kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 358 dwellings with one vehicle, 387 with two and 216 with three or more. Only 6.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

60.9% of work journeys from Toorak Gardens were made by car on Census day. 6.3% walked or cycled. 15.8% 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 Toorak Gardens is two-person, at 34.3% of households. 27.7% live alone and 24.2% of households hold four people or more. Across 726 families, 46.3% were couples with children, 42.8% couples without and 9.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Toorak Gardens was 47 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,575 a month. Median household income ran to $2,286 a week, against $1,068 for an individual.

Ownership in Toorak Gardens is unusually settled: 46.5% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 25.3% carrying a mortgage and 26% rented. That is 266 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Toorak Gardens 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 draft guest-purpose brief identifies 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 (SAL41461) 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.