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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 4,142 residents and recorded 2,096 private dwellings, with 519 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Fremantle is the closest sizeable market, roughly 61 kilometres to the south. 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 Falcon and Dawesville give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Wannanup is a standalone house: 1,428 of 1,573 occupied private dwellings, or 90.8%. A further 36 dwellings, 2.3%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

Housing in Wannanup runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 56.7% of occupied private dwellings, and 93.5% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 11 one-bedroom, 54 two-bedroom, 478 three-bedroom and 892 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 100 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Wannanup close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Wannanup is a two-car locality: 65.2% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 508 dwellings with one vehicle, 684 with two and 316 with three or more. Only 1.3% recorded no motor vehicle.

65.2% of work journeys from Wannanup were made by car on Census day. 1.3% walked or cycled. 7.9% 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 Wannanup is two-person, at 44.3% of households. 20.2% live alone and 21.6% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,247 families, 34.5% were couples with children, 50.6% couples without and 14.6% one-parent families.

The median age in Wannanup was 47 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $363 a week, about level with the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,885 a month. Median household income ran to $1,461 a week, against $670 for an individual.

Tenure in Wannanup split 37.5% owned outright, 38% mortgaged and 19.6% rented in 2021. That is 309 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wannanup 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. That segmentation is valuable only when the property can serve each journey honestly.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51525) 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.