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The 2021 Census counted 3,236 residents and recorded 1,393 private dwellings, with 110 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.

West Lakes Shore sits about 13 kilometres north-west of Adelaide. Only a checked address-to-destination route can support practical travel wording for a real property. The nearby guides for Semaphore Park and West Lakes give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 1,279 occupied private dwellings in West Lakes Shore, 70.4% are separate houses, 28.4% townhouses and 0.9% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in West Lakes Shore is three-bedroom at 52% of occupied private dwellings, with 83.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 18 one-bedroom, 178 two-bedroom, 665 three-bedroom and 359 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 44 with five bedrooms or more. That puts West Lakes Shore close to the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

West Lakes Shore is a two-car locality: 63% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 430 dwellings with one vehicle, 556 with two and 238 with three or more. Only 3.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

68% of work journeys from West Lakes Shore were made by car on Census day. 1.2% walked or cycled. 13% 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 Shore is two-person, at 39.4% of households. 23.1% live alone and 22% of households hold four people or more. Across 984 families, 38.9% were couples with children, 46.4% couples without and 13.7% one-parent families.

The median age in West Lakes Shore was 48 at the 2021 Census, older than the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 2.5 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $390 a week, above the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,950 a month. Median household income ran to $1,758 a week, against $849 for an individual.

Ownership in West Lakes Shore is unusually settled: 47.5% of occupied private dwellings were owned outright in 2021, with 34.1% carrying a mortgage and 14.5% rented. That is 185 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of West Lakes Shore 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 regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Each purpose needs its own proof points before it earns a prominent booking-page promise.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41569) 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.