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As a resident-and-dwelling baseline, the 2021 Census counted 5,175 residents and recorded 2,280 private dwellings, with 226 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.

On the map, West Beach, SA falls about 9 kilometres west of Adelaide. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Henley Beach South and Fulham give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,052 occupied private dwellings in West Beach, SA, 65.7% are separate houses, 12.6% townhouses and 20.7% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in West Beach, SA is three-bedroom at 42.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 72.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 86 one-bedroom, 465 two-bedroom, 874 three-bedroom and 519 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 94 with five bedrooms or more. That puts West Beach, SA close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 58.3% of occupied dwellings in West Beach, SA kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 762 dwellings with one vehicle, 793 with two and 392 with three or more. Only 4.4% recorded no motor vehicle.

67.6% of work journeys from West Beach, SA were made by car on Census day. 2.6% walked or cycled. 12.8% 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 West Beach, SA is two-person, at 35.5% of households. 28.6% live alone and 22.3% of households hold four people or more. Across 1,441 families, 44.8% were couples with children, 42.8% couples without and 10.9% one-parent families.

The median age in West Beach, SA was 45 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.4 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $320 a week, about level with the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $2,000 a month. Median household income ran to $1,746 a week, against $896 for an individual.

Tenure in West Beach, SA split 39.2% owned outright, 32.7% mortgaged and 26.4% rented in 2021. That is 542 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of West Beach, SA 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 evidence-led starting mix is 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 (SAL41564) 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.