Denial Bay SA 5690
116 addresses · 10 streets
Grey Electorate › Ceduna LGA › Denial Bay · 562 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Denial Bay is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 153 people, with a median age of 46. The typical household earns around $1,024 a week, with median rent near $265 a week. Most homes are houses. About 81% of households own their home and 19% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, German. 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 West Coast (SA) statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Denial Bay itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 park
Getting around. Airport: Ceduna Airport, 12.4 km east.
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: 5.5% 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 | 5.5% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 12.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 1.5% · Labour-force participation 54.6%
Population by age in Denial Bay
| 0-4 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 30 |
| 15-19 | 4 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 14 |
| 35-44 | 17 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 28 |
| 65-74 | 27 |
| 75-84 | 12 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Denial Bay
| House | 66 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Denial Bay
| <$650 | 7 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 14 |
| $3,000+ | 8 |
Top ancestries in Denial Bay
| English | 67 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 47 |
| German | 20 |
| Other | 16 |
| Scottish | 13 |
| Irish | 10 |
Housing tenure in Denial Bay
| Owned | 27 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 20 |
| Rented | 11 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Denial Bay
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 26 |
| 2 | 26 |
| 3 | 7 |
| 4+ | 4 |
Commute to work in Denial Bay
| Car | 54 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 4 |
Top countries of birth in Denial Bay
| New Zealand | 5 |
|---|
Languages used at home in Denial Bay
| Australian Indigenous | 10 |
|---|---|
| German | 3 |
| Tagalog | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
712 bird observations recorded near Denial Bay — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (44)
- Silver Gull (40)
- Australian Pelican (39)
- White-faced Heron (32)
- Common Starling (31)
- Pied Cormorant (31)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (31)
- Pacific Gull (30)
- Singing Honeyeater (30)
- Crested Tern (29)
- Common Greenshank (26)
- Welcome Swallow (26)
- Red-necked Stint (25)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Denial Bay
- Southern Sooty Oystercatcher (25)
- Red-capped Plover (24)
- Caspian Tern (22)
- Giinbaywarraymal (22)
- Black Swan (20)
- South-western Singing Honeyeater (20)
- Little Pied Cormorant (19)
- Nankeen Kestrel (18)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (17)
- House Sparrow (16)
- Grey Plover (15)
- Grey Teal (15)
- West Coast Pacific Gull (15)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (14)
- Fairy Tern (12)
- Little Black Cormorant (12)
- Willie Wagtail (12)
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
- Butler Terrace (1)
- Denial Bay Road (13)
- Main Street (19)
- Mckenzie Street (21)
- Murat Terrace (17)
- Peake Terrace (11)
- Saunders Drive (7)
- Ten Chain Road (1)
- Thiselton Way (18)
- Yendall Street (8)
