Wallaroo SA 5556
Wallaroo sits 161 km from Adelaide CBD in South Australia, around 1 hour 55 minutes by car. Census data records 3,699 residents with a median age of 57 and a median household income of $46,384 per year. On socioeconomic measures it sits in the bottom 20% nationally. Population grew 6.3% from 2016 to 2021. The 2021 Census recorded a median rent of $245 per week and a median monthly mortgage of $1,169. The area shows high coastal erosion risk and high crime risk. Of 2 schools within the town boundary, 1 ranks above the state average, and walkability is high.
Is Wallaroo a good town?
Wallaroo scores a C (40/100) on SuburbScan's Liveability grade — strong on transit, weaker on safety and community.
Mixed results
2 schools · 1 above peer schools
Very walkable
Walkability 71/100 · 160.6 km · 117 min drive to Adelaide
Median available
Median $572K
High crime risk
Fire 0/100 · Crime 72/100
Highly disadvantaged
SEIFA decile 1/10 · median age 57 · 3,699 residents
Liveability Rating
40 / 100 · Ranked #373 in SAEach bar is Wallaroo'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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40 / 100
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Median House Price
Public listings dataWallaroo's house market is moving higher: the median sale price reached $572,000, roughly 31% above where it sat a year earlier.
Houses
$572,500
10% above its 3 neighbours (median $520,000)
Based on 112 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 43 days — median across 59 sales that recorded a listing period
By bedrooms
- 2 bed 11 sales $445K
- 3 bed 58 sales $505K
- 4 bed 31 sales $715K
- 5 bed 9 sales $1.15M
Land
$232,500
Based on 20 recorded sales in the last 24 months.
Typically sold in 52 days — median across 7 sales that recorded a listing period
Currently for Sale
Last 6 monthsHouses in Wallaroo are currently listed at around $632,000 on average. Based on 44 houses listed in the past six months.
$632K
44 houses listed in the last 6 months.
44 of the suburb's 1,590 dwellings (2.8%) were listed for sale in the last 6 months.
Rental Market
Advertised rents · last 6 monthsHouses in Wallaroo rent for around $625 a week on average, based on 22 houses listed for rent in the past six months.
$625/wk
22 houses advertised for rent in the last 6 months.
22 rentals advertised against an estimated 507 rented homes (4.3%) in the last 6 months.
Rent agreed on new leases
Apr–Jun 2026- 3-bed houses
- $410/wk
- 10 bonds
- +53% 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 2025109 Moderately unaffordable · the average rental household in this region would pay about 28% of its income on the median rent in postcode 5556.
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$625/week ($32,000 a year) on a $632,000 median
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 Wallaroo safe? Crime statistics
2026Crime in Wallaroo sits in the high band, with 193 incidents recorded in 2026 — down roughly 27% on the prior year.
193 offences
27.2% since 2025Crime Trend
Serious Road Crashes
2021–20258 crashes
where someone was killed or admitted to hospital, 1 of them fatal
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.
Coastal Erosion
Shoreline Change Summary
1989–2025Nearest Eroding Coastline
- Distance
- 686 m
- Rate
- -0.41 m/yr
- Net Movement
- -4.2 m
- Certainty
- good
Data Quality
Schools
Two schools serve Wallaroo, and results are mixed — some outperforming peer-suburb schools, some below. Wallaroo Primary School leads the pack.
- • 204 students across 2 schools (avg 102)
- • Sectors: 1 Catholic, 1 Government
- • ICSEA 865-968, median 916 (below the national baseline of 1000)
- • Largest: St Mary MacKillop School (139 students)
Primary
Combined
Walkability
Wallaroo is very walkable on foot — at 71/100, most daily errands can be done on foot.
NBN connectivity
The internet access technology available across NBN premises in Wallaroo.
- Full-fibre (FTTP) share
- 6%
- Premises covered
- 2,545
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 10 small areas inside this town and averages them into the single decile above. They fall into 4 different deciles — a wide range, so parts of this town rank well above the average and parts well below it.
Wallaroo is home to about 3,700 residents, with a median age of 57 — noticeably older than the national figure of 38. Median household income runs at $46,000 a year, with unemployment at 10.3%.
2021 Census · change since 2016
Population
3,699
Median Age
57
Median Household Income
$46,384/yr
Census Median Rent
$245/wk
Census Median Mortgage
$1,169/mo
Avg Household Size
2.1
Median Personal Income
$26,312/yr
Unemployment Rate
10.3%
Unoccupied Dwellings
38.8%
Total Dwellings
1,590
Owner-Occupier Rate
68.1%
Houses
90.8%
Rental Stress
27.5%
Mortgage Stress
30.2%
Work From Home
10.1%
Dwelling Types
Property Ownership
82 rented from a state or territory housing authority and 21 from a community housing provider, as a share of the 481 rented dwellings above — not of all dwellings.
Demographics
- Born in Australia
- 82.9%
- English Spoken at Home
- 90.6%
- Employment Rate
- 35.9%
- Completed Year 12
- 22.7%
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.
19 residents (0.5%) 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.
9.3% of residents (331) lived in a capital city five years earlier, most of them in Adelaide (288).
Top places newcomers came from, as a share of the 3,553 residents aged five and over. Areas are ABS statistical regions. Small counts are approximate: the ABS adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
Languages Spoken at Home
Top languages other than English, as a share of all residents.
Age Distribution
Family & Household Composition
Commute to Work
1% of employed residents work in a capital's city centre (13 of 1,159).
City centre: the ABS area around each capital's CBD, such as Sydney Inner City or Perth City (which takes in Subiaco and Leederville). 2021 Census place of work.
Local Jobs
People who work in this town against employed people who live here, 2021 Census.
About 966 people work here; 1,159 employed residents live here.
Roughly as many jobs as working residents (0.8 per resident). At least 12% of employed residents must work outside the town.
Counts are by place of work and place of usual residence. The ABS counts jobs in zones; where a zone spans several places, its jobs are shared out by land use. The ABS also adjusts every figure slightly to protect privacy.
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 65%
- Environmental 13%
- Residential 11%
- Infrastructure and transport 5%
- Industrial 5%
- 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 Maitland, 49.4 kmDry climate — hot summers, mild winters.
- Elevation
- 15 m
- above sea level, at the town centre
- Distance to the ocean
- 527 m
- 551 m to a named beach
- Annual rainfall
- 459 mm
- 76 rainy days
- Summer max (Jan)
- 29.4°C
- 23 days ≥ 35°C
- Winter min (Jul)
- 7.6°C
- 0 frost days ≤ 0°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
1 facility within 5 km- 1.7 kmIndustrial and Agricultural Chemical Product WholesalingTop reported: Fluoride compounds
EV adoption
In postcode 5556, 5 of 4,276 registered light vehicles are battery-electric on 31 January 2025. A further 2.2% (92 vehicles) are hybrid or plug-in hybrid, taking the non-petrol, non-diesel share to 2.3%.
Rooftop solar
In postcode 5556, 2,002 rooftop-solar systems totalling 12.1 MW have been installed since 2001, against 2,912 dwellings recorded in the 2021 Census. 130 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
2 mortgage brokers are registered in postcode 5556.
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 2026-10-26 — 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.
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- Nearest and zoned schools, with the walk from that door
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Common questions about Wallaroo
Is Wallaroo a safe place to live?
Recorded crime in Wallaroo 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 Wallaroo?
Wallaroo has no recorded bushfire history. These are town-wide figures; check the address, as flood and bushfire exposure change street by street.
Is Wallaroo a good place to live?
Wallaroo has a SuburbScan Liveability grade of C (40/100), 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 Wallaroo?
Wallaroo, SA had a population of 3,699 at the 2021 Australian Bureau of Statistics census.
What is the postcode for Wallaroo, SA?
The postcode for Wallaroo, SA is 5556.
How far is Wallaroo from Adelaide?
Wallaroo is 161 km from Adelaide CBD by road, about 117 minutes by car in normal traffic. Distance is the most-direct driving route, not straight-line.
What is the median household income in Wallaroo?
At the 2021 ABS Census, median household income in Wallaroo was $46,384 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 Wallaroo?
The median advertised rent in Wallaroo is $625 a week for houses (22 listings), from rental listings over the last six months.
What is the median age in Wallaroo?
The median age of residents in Wallaroo was 57 at the 2021 ABS Census.
How are the schools in Wallaroo?
There are 2 schools inside the Wallaroo boundary: 1 above and 1 below similar schools on NAPLAN, compared with same-state, same-type schools of similar socio-educational advantage (ICSEA).
Is Wallaroo walkable?
Wallaroo scores 71/100 on the SuburbScan Walkability Score, making it very 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 Wallaroo?
At the nearest Bureau of Meteorology station to Wallaroo, Maitland (49.4 km away), summer days average 29.4°C, winter nights 7.6°C, 459 mm of rain a year over 76 rainy days, and 23 days a year above 35°C over 2006-2026.
Is the First Home Owner Grant available in Wallaroo?
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 Wallaroo belong to?
Wallaroo 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 Wallaroo?
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 Wallaroo?
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 Wallaroo in?
Wallaroo 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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