Kadina SA 5554
Kadina sits 152 km from Adelaide CBD in South Australia, around 1 hour 45 minutes by car. Census data records 2,944 residents with a median age of 49 and a median household income of $56,212 per year. By household income, education, and employment patterns, it ranks in the bottom 20% nationally. The town grew 3.3% between 2016 and 2021. At the 2021 Census, households here paid a median rent of $250 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,083. Kadina is characterised by high crime risk and no recorded bushfire exposure. Of 2 schools within the town boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is moderate.
Is Kadina a good town?
Kadina scores a C (38/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — weaker on safety and community.
Mixed results
2 schools · 1 above peer schools
Some car dependence
Walkability 52/100 · 151.5 km · 107 min drive to Adelaide
Median available
Median $520K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 72/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 2/10 · median age 49 · 2,944 residents
Liveability Rating
38 / 100 · Ranked #401 in SAEach bar is Kadina's rank among SA suburbs, from 0 to 100 (higher is better). Scored on 4 of 5 factors: no school data, so the other factors carry its weight.
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Our score
38 / 100
From schools, safety and socio-economic data — not opinion.
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Median House Price
Public listings dataKadina's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $520,000, roughly 15% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$520,000
Based on 126 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 48 days — median across 58 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 15 sales $413K
- 3 bed 71 sales $515K
- 4 bed 30 sales $590K
- 5 bed 5 sales $635K
Land
$187,500
Based on 18 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 40 days — median across 4 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Kadina are currently listed at around $685,000 on average. Based on 21 houses listed in the past six months.
$685K
21 houses listed in the last 6 months.
21 of the suburb's 1,238 dwellings (1.7%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Kadina rent for around $420 a week on average, based on 3 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$420/wk
3 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
4 rentals advertised against an estimated 359 rented homes (1.1%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Apr–Jun 2026- All rentals
- $510/wk
- 10 bonds
- +61% since 2021
Median weekly rent on bonds lodged for new tenancies. Change since 2021 compares the median of the first four quarters with the last four. Asking rents above come from advertised listings.
Rental affordability
June quarter 2025126 Acceptable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 24% of its income on the median rent in postcode 5554.
SGS Rental Affordability Index: a score of 100 means rent takes 30% of income, the usual housing-stress line; lower scores are less affordable. "Region" is the capital city or the rest of the state.
Gross rental yield
Indicative$420/week ($22,000 a year) on a $685,000 median
Based on a small sample (3 listings) — indicative only.
Gross yield — before strata, rates, management, insurance and vacancy. Calculated from median advertised rents and median asking prices over the last 6 months. How we calculate.
Is Kadina safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Kadina sits in the high band, with 144 incidents recorded in 2026 — down about 6% on the prior year.
144 offences
5.9% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20252 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital
Crashes are counted where they happened, so a main road through the town carries people passing through; this is not a measure of risk to residents. This state’s crash data does not name the road.
Schools
Two schools serve Kadina, and the cohort skews above peer-suburb performance. Kadina Memorial School leads the pack.
- • 1,486 students across 2 schools (avg 743)
- • Sectors: 1 Independent, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 951-983, median 967 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: Kadina Memorial School (1,184 students)
Combined
Walkability
Kadina is somewhat walkable on foot — at 52/100, a short cluster of errands work on foot but most trips still benefit from a car. Within the town there are 2 supermarkets, 3 parks and 3 cafes to anchor that walking radius.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Kadina.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 16%
- Premises covered
- 1,728
NBN Co fixed-line and fixed-wireless premises, as at 30 December 2025. Higher-quality technologies (full fibre) score above copper, wireless, and satellite. Actual speeds depend on your plan.
Amenities
Copper Coast: council population
The three add up to the change above. These are council-wide figures from the ABS, not figures for this town alone — this town's own population is in the census section above.
Socio-economic profile
The ABS scores 7 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 3 different deciles — a narrow range, so the average describes the town closely.
Kadina is home to about 2,900 residents, with a median age of 49, a touch above the national 38. Median household income runs at $56,000 a year, with unemployment at 6.1%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
2,944
Median Age
49
Median Household Income
$56,212/yr
Census Median Rent
$250/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,083/mo
Avg Household Size
2.2
Median Personal Income
$31,096/yr
Unemployment Rate
6.1%
Unoccupied Dwellings
11.8%
Total Dwellings
1,238
Owner-Occupier Rate
71.0%
Houses
90.1%
Rental Stress
23.1%
Mortgage Stress
23.1%
Work From Home
7.2%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
51 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 12 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 341 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 86.7%
- English Spoken at Home
- 91.8%
- Employment Rate
- 45.7%
- Completed Year 12
- 28.8%
Occupations
Religion
Country of Birth (overseas)
Largest overseas birthplaces, as a share of all residents.
When They Arrived
Share of all residents by the year they arrived in Australia. Periods cover different numbers of years, so compare the shape rather than the bar widths.
7 residents (0.2%) arrived since 2016. Australia’s borders were closed to most arrivals from March 2020, so the last two years of that period are much smaller than the ones before them — nationally 260,799 people arrived in 2019 against 28,521 in 2021.
Where New Residents Came From
Where residents aged five and over lived five years before the 2021 Census, for those who lived somewhere else.
7.1% of residents (200) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Adelaide (168).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 2,804 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
Education
Cars per Dwelling
Council Rates
Households face an average residential rates bill of $1,817 a year through Copper Coast based on 2024 figures.
How this land is zoned
- Rural and farming 91%
- Infrastructure and transport 4%
- Residential 2%
- Environmental 2%
- Zones under 1% 1%
Zoning sets what may be built, not what is there today. A single address can sit in a different zone to the town around it — the property page shows the zone for one address.
Building Approvals: Copper Coast
In the year to August 2026, 232 new dwellings were approved across Copper Coast. That mix is 204 houses and 28 units. Approvals are up 142.3% on the same period a year earlier.
Climate & Setting
from Price, 45.6 kmDry climate — warm summers, cool winters.
- Elevation
- 50 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 8.9 km
- Annual rainfall
- 295 mm
- 44 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 27.8°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 7.2°C
Elevation is the ground at the town centre, from Geoscience Australia's National Digital Elevation Model. Approximate — it reads high in dense built-up areas. It is a measure of height above sea level and not an indicator of flood risk, which depends on height above nearby waterways.
Industrial Emissions Nearby
3 facilities within 5 km- 0.6 kmPetroleum Product WholesalingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · n-Hexane · Toluene (methylbenzene)
- 0.7 kmPetroleum Product WholesalingTop reported: Total Volatile Organic Compounds · n-Hexane · Toluene (methylbenzene)
- 1.1 kmIndustrial and Agricultural Chemical Product WholesalingTop reported: Mercury & compounds
EV adoption
In postcode 5554, 4 of 5,438 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.1% (112 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.1%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 5554, 1,645 rooftop-solar systems totalling 11.3 MW have been installed since 2001, against 2,396 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 107 went up in the last year.
Counts every system certified since 2001, so a roof re-fitted with a newer system is counted twice, and small commercial systems are included alongside houses — useful for comparing postcodes, not an estimate of how many homes have working panels today.
2026 covers part of the year only, to 2026-07.
First Home Owner Grant
FY2026-27$15,000 for new homes.
No purchase-price cap. Stamp duty is fully exempted for eligible first-home buyers as a separate concession.
Mortgage repayments
Conveyance duty at the owner-occupier rate, and it excludes first home buyer concessions — those can cut it substantially or remove it entirely. Excludes legal, inspection and lender fees. Check with RevenueSA
A deposit under 20% usually attracts Lenders Mortgage Insurance, which this doesn't include.
Principal and interest over 30 years, fixed rate. Excludes fees, offset, redraw and LMI. Default rate is the median comparison rate across 1788 advertised products as at 2026-10-27 — indicative only, and not an offer. Your rate depends on the lender, your deposit and your circumstances. Not financial advice.
Federal Electorate
Currently held by Tom Venning Liberal
| Year | Winner | 2PP ALP | 2PP LNP | Swing |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Tom Venning | 45.4% | 54.6% | +5.4 |
| 2022 | Rowan Ramsey | 39.9% | 60.1% | -3.2 |
| 2019 | Rowan Ramsey | 36.7% | 63.3% | +5.6 |
Results are per division — federal electoral boundaries are redrawn periodically, so the history reflects this division's past, not necessarily the exact town's voters across time.
State Electorate
Currently held by Chantelle Thomas Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Next state election: 16 March 2030.
| Year | Winner | Won with |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Chantelle Thomas ON | 50.1% |
| 2022 | Fraser Ellis IND | 58.3% |
Results are per district. Districts were last redrawn in 2024, so results from before then describe the district of that name, not necessarily this town's voters. Results: Electoral Commission of South Australia.
Looking at a specific address in Kadina?
Every figure above is a town average, and an average smooths over the difference between a street of family homes and a block of flats. Look up one address and you get the census for the few hundred people around it, its own nearest schools and stops, and what the state has mapped for that block.
- The census for a few hundred neighbours, not all 2,944 residents
- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
- Flood, bushfire and noise mapping, where the state publishes it
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Common questions about Kadina
Is Kadina a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Kadina is high (72/100, ranked against other SA suburbs on offences per resident). Offences against shops, venues and visitors are divided by the people who live here, so suburbs with large daytime or visitor populations rank higher than living there may feel.
What natural hazards affect Kadina?
Kadina has no recorded bushfire history. These are town-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Kadina a good place to live?
Kadina has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (38/100), ranked against other SA suburbs on school quality (25%), safety (25%), SEIFA socio-economic advantage (25%), walkability (15%) and CBD access (10%). Whether it suits you depends on what you weigh — each of those is on this page.
What is the population of Kadina?
Kadina, SA had a population of 2,944 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Kadina, SA?
The postcode for Kadina, SA is 5554.
How far is Kadina from Adelaide?
Kadina is 152 km from Adelaide CBD by road, about 107 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Kadina?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Kadina was $56,212 a year. It is the most recent suburb-level income figure until 2026 Census results are released in 2027.
What is the median weekly rent in Kadina?
The median advertised rent in Kadina is $420 a week for houses (3 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Kadina?
The median age of residents in Kadina was 49 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Kadina?
There are 2 schools inside the Kadina boundary: 1 above and 1 at similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Kadina walkable?
Kadina scores 52/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it somewhat walkable. The score is a weighted average of public transport, schools, parks, supermarkets, GPs, pharmacies, childcare, and hospitals within walking distance.
What is the weather like in Kadina?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Kadina, Price (45.6 km away), summer days average 27.8°C, winter nights 7.2°C, and 295 mm of rain a year over 44 rainy days over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Kadina?
First-home buyers in SA may be eligible for $15,000 towards new homes. The grant is administered by RevenueSA; confirm current eligibility before signing a contract — state rules and amounts can change.
What council does Kadina belong to?
Kadina sits within the Copper Coast local government area. Council rates, planning approvals, and waste collection fall under this LGA.
How much are council rates in Kadina?
The average residential rates bill through Copper Coast is $1,817 a year (2024). Every suburb in this LGA shares the same schedule — individual bills vary with land value.
How much is being built near Kadina?
Across Copper Coast, 232 new residential dwellings were approved in the year to August 2026 (source: ABS Building Approvals). That's up 142.3% on the same period a year earlier. These are LGA-level totals — every suburb in the council shares the same figure.
Which federal electorate is Kadina in?
Kadina sits within the federal Division of Grey, currently held by Tom Venning (Liberal).
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Data freshness
- Census · 2021
- Median sale prices · Oct 2026
- For-sale & rental market · Oct 2026
- Council rates · FY 2024–25
- Building approvals · Aug 2026
- Schools · 2025
- NBN connectivity · Dec 2025
- Crime · 2026
- Road crashes · 2021–2025
- Climate · 2006–2026
- Socio-economic (SEIFA) · 2021
- EV adoption · Jan 2025
- First Home Owner Grant · Sep 2026
- Federal electorate · 2025
- State electorate · 2026
- Amenities · Sep 2026
- Health & emergency facilities · Sep 2026
- Industrial emissions (NPI) · 2024/2025
- Coastal erosion · 1988–2025
- Aircraft noise · 2024
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