Freeling SA 5372
1,189 addresses · 90 streets
Barker Electorate › Light LGA › Freeling · 56 km from Adelaide
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Living Here
Freeling is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 2,688 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $1,755 a week, with median rent near $330 a week. Most homes are houses. About 86% of households own their home and 13% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2011 → 2021
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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: 0.4% 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 | 0.4% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.0% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.2% · Labour-force participation 65.2%
Population by age in Freeling
| 0-4 | 199 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 463 |
| 15-19 | 184 |
| 20-24 | 152 |
| 25-34 | 383 |
| 35-44 | 337 |
| 45-54 | 313 |
| 55-64 | 309 |
| 65-74 | 236 |
| 75-84 | 82 |
| 85+ | 41 |
Dwelling types in Freeling
| House | 877 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 8 |
| Apartment | 8 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Freeling
| <$650 | 94 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 249 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 340 |
| $3,000+ | 136 |
Top ancestries in Freeling
| Australian | 1,282 |
|---|---|
| English | 1,261 |
| German | 352 |
| Scottish | 218 |
| Irish | 179 |
| Ancestry NS | 109 |
Housing tenure in Freeling
| Owned | 212 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 545 |
| Rented | 117 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Freeling
| 0 | 3 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 222 |
| 2 | 361 |
| 3 | 184 |
| 4+ | 111 |
Commute to work in Freeling
| Car | 987 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 3 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 25 |
| Bicycle | 6 |
| Home | 77 |
Top countries of birth in Freeling
| England | 165 |
|---|---|
| Scotland | 10 |
| Netherlands | 9 |
| Germany | 7 |
| United States | 7 |
| New Zealand | 6 |
Languages used at home in Freeling
| Mandarin | 7 |
|---|---|
| Italian | 5 |
| German | 4 |
| Malayalam | 4 |
| Thai | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
809 bird observations recorded near Freeling — most often seen:
- Common Starling (57)
- Australian Magpie (47)
- Galah (46)
- House Sparrow (46)
- Magpie-lark (41)
- Pacific Black Duck (36)
- Little Raven (33)
- White-faced Heron (33)
- Australasian Grebe (30)
- Eurasian Coot (29)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (26)
- Masked Lapwing (26)
- Crested Pigeon (24)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Freeling
- Hardhead (24)
- Red Wattlebird (24)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (23)
- Little Pied Cormorant (22)
- Southern Magpie-lark (22)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (21)
- Grey Teal (20)
- Australian Reed Warbler (19)
- Brown Songlark (19)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (19)
- Eurasian Blackbird (19)
- Black-shouldered Kite (18)
- Black-tailed Native-hen (18)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (17)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (17)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (17)
- Eastern Galah (16)
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 Freeling:
- Daveyston (6.2 km)
- Shea-oak Log (6.8 km)
- Templers (6.9 km)
- Morn Hill (7.1 km)
- Nain (8 km)
- Fords (8.6 km)
- Linwood (9.8 km)
- Seppeltsfield (9.9 km)
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Streets
- Anders Street (2)
- Arend Road (1)
- Becker Street (22)
- Bessen Court (13)
- Block Court (10)
- Booker Road (2)
- Borrow Street (64)
- Cherry Street (9)
- Church Street (16)
- Clarke Street (34)
- Coffey Road (1)
- Coulls Street (20)
- Croser Street (4)
- Daly Avenue (12)
- Daveyston Road (6)
- Derby Street (22)
- Euston Terrace (3)
- Faehse Road (2)
- Fiddlewood Drive (69)
- Finck Court (8)
- Fords Road (1)
- Friedrich Street (10)
- Gaertner Street (3)
- Gill Road (1)
- Gniel Road (1)
- Gramp Road (1)
- Gray Street (43)
- Hamilton Street (15)
- Hanisch Street (15)
- Hanson Street (93)
- Heinrich Road (11)
- Hese Place (4)
- Higgs Road (2)
- Jaensch Circuit (15)
- Jas Ryan Road (1)
- Kernich Road (1)
- Kirchner Street (18)
- Knightley Circuit (41)
- Koch Street (9)
- Kuhlmann Lane (1)
- Kuhlmann Road (4)
- Lacebark Court (13)
- Lange Road (3)
- Leske Road (4)
- Leske Street (7)
- Light Road (7)
- Mattiske Road (1)
- Mattiske Street (6)
- Mccallum Road (15)
- Meaney Drive (23)
- Moore Lane (7)
- Muster Road (5)
- Neindorf Lane (1)
- Neindorf Road (2)
- Neldner Road (1)
- Nenke Lane (5)
- Nurse Road (2)
- Old Kapunda Road (1)
- Otto Avenue (11)
- Peake Street (27)
- Pedler Boulevard (42)
- Peters Road (1)
- Power Street (10)
- Railway Terrace (28)
- Richards Road (2)
- Roberts Place (14)
- Roche Street (29)
- Rogers Street (25)
- Rohde Street (36)
- Rowe Street (14)
- Schaefer Street (27)
- Schirmer Road (2)
- Schulze Street (15)
- Schuster Road (1)
- Schuster Street (31)
- Semmens Crescent (16)
- Shanahan Street (5)
- Shepherd Street (13)
- Skehan Place (8)
- Stephenson Street (17)
- Stockport Road (8)
- Stollberg Road (27)
- Sugargum Place (4)
- Templers Road (39)
- Thiele Highway (10)
- Tremlett Road (2)
- View Street (3)
- Walton Road (1)
- Warnest Street (4)
- Warren Road (4)
