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The 2021 Census counted 1,369 residents and recorded 610 private dwellings, with 68 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.

Straight-line, Watermans Bay is some 15 kilometres north-west of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for North Beach, WA and Marmion give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 543 occupied private dwellings in Watermans Bay, 67.6% are separate houses, 29.7% townhouses and 2.9% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Watermans Bay is three-bedroom at 37.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 79.6% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 31 one-bedroom, 78 two-bedroom, 202 three-bedroom and 198 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 32 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Watermans Bay close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Watermans Bay is a two-car locality: 67.9% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 154 dwellings with one vehicle, 250 with two and 114 with three or more. Only 2.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

65% of work journeys from Watermans Bay were made by car on Census day. 0.6% walked or cycled. 15.2% 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 Watermans Bay is two-person, at 43.8% of households. 23.6% live alone and 22.1% of households hold four people or more. Across 404 families, 41.1% were couples with children, 52% couples without and 7.9% one-parent families.

The median age in Watermans Bay was 49 at the 2021 Census, older than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $410 a week, above the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,934 a month. Median household income ran to $2,190 a week, against $1,085 for an individual.

Ownership in Watermans Bay is unusually settled: 46.4% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 30.8% carrying a mortgage and 19.3% rented. That is 105 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Watermans Bay 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. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51546) 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.