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The 2021 Census counted 3,699 residents and recorded 2,204 private dwellings, with 617 unoccupied on Census night. Those figures describe a Census-night population and housing context; they cannot identify holiday homes or prove accommodation performance. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Measured in a straight line, Wallaroo is about 137 kilometres north-west of Barossa Valley. That is a straight-line measure, not a driving route, a council boundary or a promise about travel time. The nearby guides for North Beach, SA and New Town, SA give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Wallaroo is a standalone house: 1,444 of 1,590 occupied private dwellings, or 90.8%.

The commonest home in Wallaroo is three-bedroom at 51.5% of occupied private dwellings, with 76.9% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 49 one-bedroom, 269 two-bedroom, 819 three-bedroom and 353 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 51 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Wallaroo close to the Barossa Valley area median of 79.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 51.2% of occupied dwellings in Wallaroo kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 658 dwellings with one vehicle, 557 with two and 238 with three or more. Only 6.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

68.2% of work journeys from Wallaroo were made by car on Census day. 3.7% walked or cycled. 8.2% 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 Wallaroo is two-person, at 45.1% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 33.3%, with 11.9% of households at four people or more. Across 1,019 families, 22.7% were couples with children, 57.9% couples without and 17.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Wallaroo was 57 at the 2021 Census, older than the Barossa Valley area median of 45. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $245 a week, about level with the $220 median across the Barossa Valley localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,169 a month. Median household income ran to $892 a week, against $506 for an individual.

Tenure in Wallaroo split 42.6% owned outright, 22% mortgaged and 30.3% rented in 2021. That is 481 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wallaroo 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.

A sensible first set of booking journeys covers regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41518) 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.