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The 2021 Census counted 7,042 residents and recorded 3,075 private dwellings, with 238 unoccupied on Census night. No dwelling category in this table should be converted into a claim about active rentals without separate, current proof. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Straight-line, Westminster is some 10 kilometres north of Perth. Treat it as orientation only. Route, road and jurisdiction claims need checking against the real address. The nearby guides for Balga and Nollamara give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 2,837 occupied private dwellings in Westminster, 62.8% are separate houses, 35.7% townhouses and 1.4% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Westminster is three-bedroom at 71.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 80.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 86 one-bedroom, 421 two-bedroom, 2,034 three-bedroom and 212 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 28 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Westminster close to the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 49.3% of occupied dwellings in Westminster kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,214 dwellings with one vehicle, 1,042 with two and 331 with three or more. Only 7.2% recorded no motor vehicle.

72.1% of work journeys from Westminster were made by car on Census day. 1.2% walked or cycled. 4.7% 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 Westminster is two-person, at 32.3% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 32%, with 18.3% of households at four people or more. Across 1,811 families, 40.4% were couples with children, 34.9% couples without and 21.8% one-parent families.

The median age in Westminster was 34 at the 2021 Census, younger than the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.3 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $330 a week, about level with the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,517 a month. Median household income ran to $1,404 a week, against $769 for an individual.

Westminster has a substantial rental base, with 44.2% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 34.8% mortgaged and 18.6% owned outright. That is 1,254 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Westminster 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. A host should confirm that mix against real messages, stay reasons and booking history.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51588) 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.