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The 2021 Census counted 1,448 residents and recorded 693 private dwellings, with 107 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Wagin is about 204 kilometres south-east of Fremantle. 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 Harvey and Waroona give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Wagin is a standalone house: 542 of 580 occupied private dwellings, or 93.4%.

The commonest home in Wagin is three-bedroom at 48.1% of occupied private dwellings, with 75.3% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 13 one-bedroom, 114 two-bedroom, 279 three-bedroom and 135 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 23 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Wagin below the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 58.7% of occupied dwellings in Wagin kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 199 dwellings with one vehicle, 208 with two and 125 with three or more. Only 7.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.5% of work journeys from Wagin were made by car on Census day. 5.1% walked or cycled. 5.5% 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 Wagin is two-person, at 40.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 37.9%, with 13.1% of households at four people or more. Across 349 families, 25.5% were couples with children, 55.3% couples without and 18.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Wagin was 51 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $195 a week, well below the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $932 a month. Median household income ran to $1,073 a week, against $621 for an individual.

Tenure in Wagin split 43.4% owned outright, 29.7% mortgaged and 24.1% rented in 2021. That is 140 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wagin 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 regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51501) 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.