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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 1,467 residents and recorded 551 private dwellings, with 57 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.

Rottnest Island is the closest sizeable market, roughly 368 kilometres to the north. It decides which regional photograph this page carries and nothing else; journey advice has to come from current maps and the host. The nearby guides for Woorree and Rangeway give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Utakarra is a standalone house: 461 of 495 occupied private dwellings, or 93.1%.

The commonest home in Utakarra is three-bedroom at 52.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 88.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 11 one-bedroom, 47 two-bedroom, 258 three-bedroom and 159 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 21 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Utakarra close to the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 56.6% of occupied dwellings in Utakarra kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 186 dwellings with one vehicle, 187 with two and 87 with three or more. Only 4.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

76.6% of work journeys from Utakarra were made by car on Census day. 2.2% walked or cycled. 3.1% 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 Utakarra is two-person, at 36.4% of households. 24.6% live alone and 22% of households hold four people or more. Across 365 families, 32.1% were couples with children, 34.5% couples without and 31.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Utakarra was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2.6 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $240 a week, about level with the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,345 a week, against $631 for an individual.

Tenure in Utakarra split 23.6% owned outright, 39.4% mortgaged and 31.9% rented in 2021. That is 158 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Utakarra 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. The host's enquiry log can validate, narrow or replace these provisional categories.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51486) 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.