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For scale, the 2021 Census counted 521 residents and recorded 185 private dwellings, with 96 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.

Wiluna lies roughly 762 kilometres north-east of Perth. A guest-facing page should check the real route rather than turning this figure into an arrival claim. The nearby guides for Meekatharra and Leonora give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Almost everything in Wiluna is a standalone house: 78 of 84 occupied private dwellings, or 92.9%.

The commonest home in Wiluna is three-bedroom at 39.3% of occupied private dwellings, with 46.4% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 8 one-bedroom, 23 two-bedroom, 33 three-bedroom and 3 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 3 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Wiluna well below the Perth area median of 86.5% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

Vehicle ownership in Wiluna is comparatively light, with 33.8% of occupied dwellings keeping two or more motor vehicles in 2021. The split was 38 dwellings with one vehicle, 15 with two and 11 with three or more. 11.7% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

33% of work journeys from Wiluna were made by car on Census day. 21.5% walked or cycled. 3.7% 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 Wiluna is single-person, at 42.9% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 42.9%, with 17.9% of households at four people or more. Across 55 families, 10.9% were couples with children, 47.3% couples without and 34.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Wiluna was 35 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Perth area median of 39. Households averaged 2.4 people and 1 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $118 a week, well below the $350 median across the Perth localities DirectStay covers. Median household income ran to $1,089 a week, against $1,212 for an individual.

Wiluna has a substantial rental base, with 48.8% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 0% mortgaged and 15.5% owned outright. That is 41 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wiluna 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 supplied locality profile points to weekend and seasonal stays, couples or family breaks and multi-night self-contained trips. Actual guest questions should decide which journey receives the strongest emphasis.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL51618) 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.