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The most recent Census, taken in 2021, counted 1,711 residents and recorded 840 private dwellings, with 100 unoccupied on Census night. Neither occupancy status nor dwelling count establishes that a home is offered for short stays, so property supply must be verified separately. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

Wonthella sits about 370 kilometres north of Rottnest Island. It is not road distance, and it does not mean the locality sits inside that market. The nearby guides for Geraldton and Beresford give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

Of 734 occupied private dwellings in Wonthella, 80.7% are separate houses, 12.5% townhouses and 6.5% flats or apartments.

The commonest home in Wonthella is three-bedroom at 49.7% of occupied private dwellings, with 67.2% at three bedrooms or more. The 2021 count recorded 41 one-bedroom, 183 two-bedroom, 365 three-bedroom and 117 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 11 with five bedrooms or more. That puts Wonthella below the Rottnest Island area median of 82.6% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 47.3% of occupied dwellings in Wonthella kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 328 dwellings with one vehicle, 229 with two and 110 with three or more. Only 7.8% recorded no motor vehicle.

74.1% of work journeys from Wonthella were made by car on Census day. 4.5% walked or cycled. 2.4% 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 Wonthella is single-person, at 41.1% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 41.1%, with 13.8% of households at four people or more. Across 425 families, 29.9% were couples with children, 40.2% couples without and 27.5% one-parent families.

The median age in Wonthella was 43 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Rottnest Island area median of 48. Households averaged 2.1 people and 0.7 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $230 a week, about level with the $253 median across the Rottnest Island localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,300 a month. Median household income ran to $1,061 a week, against $615 for an individual.

Wonthella has a substantial rental base, with 43.1% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 24.4% mortgaged and 28.2% owned outright. That is 316 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of Wonthella 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 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 (SAL51635) 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.