Cooltong SA 5341
241 addresses · 17 streets
Barker Electorate › Renmark Paringa LGA › Cooltong · 212 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Cooltong is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 322 people, with a median age of 40. The typical household earns around $1,392 a week, with median rent near $200 a week. Most homes are houses. About 77% of households own their home and 19% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Greek. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Renmark Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Cooltong itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 hospital
1 plumber
Getting around. Airport: Renmark Airport, 10.8 km south.
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: 11.3% 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 | 11.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 61.5% |
Demographics
Unemployment 2.2% · Labour-force participation 69.3%
Population by age in Cooltong
| 0-4 | 13 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 48 |
| 15-19 | 22 |
| 20-24 | 21 |
| 25-34 | 32 |
| 35-44 | 47 |
| 45-54 | 45 |
| 55-64 | 50 |
| 65-74 | 40 |
| 75-84 | 12 |
| 85+ | 4 |
Dwelling types in Cooltong
| House | 65 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 57 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Cooltong
| <$650 | 13 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 40 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 37 |
| $3,000+ | 15 |
Top ancestries in Cooltong
| Australian | 126 |
|---|---|
| English | 112 |
| Greek | 38 |
| German | 32 |
| Other | 30 |
| Italian | 26 |
Housing tenure in Cooltong
| Owned | 44 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 43 |
| Rented | 21 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Cooltong
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 30 |
| 2 | 42 |
| 3 | 28 |
| 4+ | 10 |
Commute to work in Cooltong
| Car | 120 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 30 |
Top countries of birth in Cooltong
| India | 17 |
|---|---|
| Malaysia | 13 |
| Greece | 11 |
| Turkey | 7 |
| England | 6 |
| Philippines | 3 |
Languages used at home in Cooltong
| Greek | 28 |
|---|---|
| Punjabi | 18 |
| Turkish | 11 |
| Vietnamese | 6 |
| German | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
503 bird observations recorded near Cooltong — most often seen:
- Australasian Darter (84)
- Australian Shelduck (55)
- Australian Great Pied Cormorant (44)
- Great Cormorant (27)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (24)
- Pacific Black Duck (17)
- Whistling Kite (16)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (14)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (14)
- Australian Eurasian Coot (13)
- Little Black Cormorant (13)
- Australian Pelican (12)
- Great Egret (12)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Cooltong
- Eastern Regent Parrot (11)
- Southern Magpie-lark (11)
- Straw-necked Ibis (11)
- Variegated Fairy-wren (11)
- Australian White Ibis (10)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (10)
- Black Swan (9)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (9)
- Crested Pigeon (9)
- Eurasian Blackbird (9)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (9)
- Willie Wagtail (9)
- Australian Magpie (8)
- Australian Raven (8)
- Eastern Australian Magpie (8)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (8)
- Red-rumped Parrot (8)
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 Cooltong:
- Chaffey (2.2 km)
- Renmark North (4.8 km)
- Renmark West (7.6 km)
- Renmark (9.7 km)
- Renmark South (11.2 km)
- Old Calperum (11.7 km)
- Crescent (11.9 km)
- Calperum Station (12.2 km)
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Streets
- Boase Road (1)
- Cooltong Avenue (85)
- Digger George Road (1)
- Government Road (4)
- Humphris Street (3)
- Mickan Street (4)
- Nicholls Road (5)
- Old Cooltong Avenue (34)
- Old Cooltong Road (34)
- Orroroo Street (4)
- Quarte Street (5)
- Ral Ral Avenue (17)
- Stoney Pinch Road (1)
- Story Avenue (12)
- Tareena Street (18)
- Wentworth Road (6)
- Wentworth-renmark Road (7)
