Brown Beach SA 5222
10 addresses · 2 streets
Mayo Electorate › Kangaroo Island LGA › Brown Beach · 119 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Brown Beach is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 3 people, with a median age of 62. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Kangaroo Island statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Brown Beach itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
Getting around. Airport: Kingscote Airport, 30.4 km west.
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: 59.4% 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 | 59.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 79.2% |
Demographics
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
5,142 bird observations recorded near Brown Beach — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (407)
- Kangaroo Island Grey Currawong (272)
- Kangaroo Island Superb Fairy-wren (259)
- South Australian Silvereye (249)
- South Australian Crescent Honeyeater (242)
- Giinbaywarraymal (236)
- Kangaroo Island Glossy Black-cockatoo (226)
- West Coast Pacific Gull (224)
- Red-capped Plover (218)
- Kangaroo Island Red Wattlebird (213)
- Eastern Hooded Dotterel (194)
- Australian Pelican (191)
- Kangaroo Island Brown Thornbill (178)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Brown Beach
- Kangaroo Island Spotted Scrubwren (157)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (150)
- Red-necked Stint (148)
- Kangaroo Island New Holland Honeyeater (147)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (135)
- Glossy Black-cockatoo (120)
- Pied Cormorant (119)
- South Australian Eastern Spinebill (114)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (111)
- Crested Tern (108)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (108)
- Silvereye (107)
- Eastern Scarlet Robin (105)
- Little Raven (103)
- South Australian Golden Whistler (102)
- Superb Fairy-wren (101)
- Eastern Australian Raven (98)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Brown Beach:
- Dudley West (2.6 km)
- Island Beach (3.4 km)
- Baudin Beach (3.5 km)
- American Beach (4.9 km)
- Sapphiretown (5.2 km)
- Pelican Lagoon (6.3 km)
- American River (6.7 km)
- Ballast Head (7.9 km)
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Streets
- Hog Bay Road (1)
- Mad Mile Track (9)