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Read carefully, the 2021 Census counted 2,868 residents and recorded 1,314 private dwellings, with 213 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Waroona lies roughly 87 kilometres south of Fremantle. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Preston Beach and Pinjarra give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,108 occupied private dwellings in Waroona, 89.9% are separate houses, 8.2% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments. A further 11 dwellings, 1%, were caravans, cabins or houseboats.

Housing in Waroona runs large: four-bedroom homes are the single commonest size at 38.6% of occupied private dwellings, and 81.5% have three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 31 one-bedroom, 144 two-bedroom, 405 three-bedroom and 428 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 70 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Waroona close to the Fremantle area median of 88.2% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Waroona is a two-car locality: 64.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 332 dwellings with one vehicle, 410 with two and 292 with three or more. Only 4.5% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.7% of work journeys from Waroona were made by car on Census day. 3.4% walked or cycled. 6% 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 Waroona is two-person, at 38.6% of households. 28.5% live alone and 20.7% of households hold four people or more. Across 780 families, 37.6% were couples with children, 47.8% couples without and 13.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Waroona was 48 at the 2021 Census, older than the Fremantle area median of 41. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $270 a week, below the $355 median across the Fremantle localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,517 a month. Median household income ran to $1,264 a week, against $615 for an individual.

Tenure in Waroona split 42% owned outright, 33.1% mortgaged and 18.8% rented in 2021. That is 208 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Waroona 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 local content record supports planning for 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 (SAL51536) 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.