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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 18 residents and recorded 198 private dwellings, with 189 unoccupied on Census night. The numbers are contextual only: an unoccupied dwelling is not automatically visitor accommodation and should never be presented that way. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

The nearest larger market is Rottnest Island, about 135 kilometres away to the north. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Lancelin and Ledge Point give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 7 occupied private dwellings in Wedge Island, 0% are separate houses, 0% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

Wedge Island is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 57.1% of occupied private dwellings, and 57.1% have two bedrooms or fewer. That puts Wedge Island well below the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Wedge Island is a two-car locality: 66.7% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. No occupied dwelling in the locality recorded zero vehicles, which is a fair signal that guests will arrive by car.

45.5% of work journeys from Wedge Island were made by car on Census day.

The commonest household in Wedge Island is single-person, at 42.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 42.9%, and no household counted four people or more.

The median age in Wedge Island was 64 at the 2021 Census, older than the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 1.8 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median mortgage repayments were $1,850 a month. Median household income ran to $1,812 a week, against $749 for an individual.

Ownership in Wedge Island is unusually settled: 85.7% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 0% carrying a mortgage and 0% rented.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wedge Island 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.

Useful enquiry paths can be organised around weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. These are planning hypotheses to test against enquiries, not claims about market volume.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51553) 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.