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The evidence block below links the 2021 source that counted 6,768 residents and recorded 3,162 private dwellings, with 225 unoccupied on Census night. Use the counts to understand locality scale, not to infer bookings, nightly rates, tourism flows or available inventory. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Adelaide is the closest sizeable market, roughly 12 kilometres to the north-west. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for West Lakes Shore and Royal Park give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,941 occupied private dwellings in West Lakes, 57.9% are separate houses, 32.5% townhouses and 9.4% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in West Lakes is three-bedroom at 42.6% of occupied private dwellings, with 69.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 40 one-bedroom, 822 two-bedroom, 1,253 three-bedroom and 678 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 112 with five bedrooms or more. That puts West Lakes close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 55.1% of occupied dwellings in West Lakes kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,146 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,127 with two and 474 with three or more. Only 5.6% recorded no motor vehicle.

69.8% of work journeys from West Lakes were made by car on Census day. 1.8% walked or cycled. 11.5% 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 Lakes is two-person, at 42.5% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 30%, with 15.5% of households at four people or more. Across 2,044 families, 32.6% were couples with children, 54.6% couples without and 11.4% one-parent families.

The median age in West Lakes was 54 at the 2021 Census, well older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.2 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $370 a week, above the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,788 a month. Median household income ran to $1,548 a week, against $791 for an individual.

Ownership in West Lakes is unusually settled: 50.9% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 26.9% carrying a mortgage and 15.8% rented. That is 464 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of West Lakes 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 (SAL41568) 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.