Barunga Gap SA 5520
18 addresses · 8 streets
Grey Electorate › Wakefield LGA › Barunga Gap · 130 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Barunga Gap is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 23 people, with a median age of 27. The typical household earns around $1,749 a week. Most homes are houses. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Irish, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Wakefield - Barunga West statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Barunga Gap itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 golf club
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 0.3% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 0.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 0.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Barunga Gap
| 0-4 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 3 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Barunga Gap
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Barunga Gap
| Australian | 13 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 7 |
| Other | 5 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
| English | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Cars per household in Barunga Gap
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Barunga Gap
| Car | 4 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
134 bird observations recorded near Barunga Gap — most often seen:
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (11)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (9)
- Common Starling (8)
- Eastern Galah (7)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (7)
- Little Raven (6)
- Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (6)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (6)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (6)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (6)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (5)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (5)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (5)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Barunga Gap
- Eastern Yellow-throated Miner (5)
- Birds (4)
- Eastern Dusky Woodswallow (4)
- House Sparrow (4)
- Rock Dove (3)
- South-eastern Red-rumped Parrot (3)
- Southern Magpie-lark (3)
- Yellow-throated Miner (3)
- Australian Magpie (2)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (2)
- European House Sparrow (2)
- Inland Australian Hobby (2)
- Mainland Tree Martin (2)
- Peregrine Falcon (2)
- Rufous Songlark (2)
- Spotted Harrier (2)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (2)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Augusta Highway (1)
- Barunga Gap Road (2)
- Barunga Top Road (7)
- Bute-snowtown Road (1)
- Julge Road (2)
- Landslide Road (2)
- Maro Creek Lane (2)
- Whiting Road (1)
