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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 1,373 residents and recorded 547 private dwellings, with 77 unoccupied on Census night. They support a careful place description while leaving commercial demand and short-stay supply to property and booking evidence. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

West Lamington lies roughly 547 kilometres east of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Piccadilly and Lamington give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 472 occupied private dwellings in West Lamington, 84.1% are separate houses, 15.3% townhouses and 0% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in West Lamington is three-bedroom at 46.2% of occupied private dwellings, with 91.5% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 9 one-bedroom, 25 two-bedroom, 218 three-bedroom and 181 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 33 with five bedrooms or more. That puts West Lamington close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

West Lamington is a two-car locality: 65% of occupied dwellings kept two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 139 dwellings with one vehicle, 190 with two and 109 with three or more. Only 4.1% recorded no motor vehicle.

West Lamington is car-dependent on the published numbers: 80.3% of people who travelled to work on Census day went by car. 0.8% walked or cycled. 1.7% 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 Lamington is two-person, at 25.8% of households. 25.6% live alone and 30.9% of households hold four people or more. Across 340 families, 53.8% were couples with children, 30.6% couples without and 14.4% one-parent families.

The median age in West Lamington was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.7 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $350 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,733 a month. Median household income ran to $2,456 a week, against $1,308 for an individual.

West Lamington has a substantial rental base, with 36% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 41.7% mortgaged and 16.7% owned outright. That is 170 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of West Lamington 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.

Initial audience pages can distinguish regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. Treat those journeys as a starting point, then refine them with property-level evidence.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51577) 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.