Ironbank SA 5153

Living Here

Ironbank is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 537 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $2,573 a week, with median rent near $430 a week. Most homes are houses. About 94% of households own their home and 6% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area. The median house sells for about $865,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Aldgate - Stirling statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Ironbank itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 4 schools

  • Scott Creek Primary School
  • Heathfield High School
  • Heathfield Primary School
  • St Catherines School
• 1 café or restaurant

  • Upper Sturt General Store
• 2 Catholic churches

  • St Paul of the Cross
  • Our Lady of the Way
• 1 optometrist

  • Thomas & Mackay Optometrists
• 9 hospitals

  • Stirling District Hospital
  • Repat Health Precinct
  • Flinders Medical Centre
  • Glenside Health Services
  • Burnside War Memorial Hospital
  • St Andrew’s Hospital
  • Parkwyn Private Hospital
  • Ashford Hospital
  • Calvary Adelaide Hospital
• 1 vet

  • Adelaide Vet Stirling
• 1 library

  • Coventry Memorial Library
• 1 gym

  • Upper Sturt Tennis Club
• 4 golf clubs

  • Blackwood Golf Course
  • Stirling Golf Club
  • Mount Osmond Golf Course
  • Flagstaff Hill Golf Club
• 3 hardware stores

  • Mitre 10
  • Crowies Paints
  • Aldgate Hardware
• 1 mechanic

  • UltraTune Stirling
• 1 plumber

  • Aquatek
• 21 places to stay

  • Tyne House Bed and Breakfast
  • The Duck Inn
  • Crafers Cottages
  • Throngrove Manor Hotel
  • 10a
  • 10b
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  • 29
  • 30
  • 7

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Getting around. Train station: Blackwood, 6.7 km west · Bus interchange: Blackwood Interchange, 6.7 km west · Airport: Adelaide Airport, 18 km north-west.

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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.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Metropolitan Median House Sales, Valuer-General South Australia.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 68.5% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 4.3% · Labour-force participation 67.2%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

83,550 bird observations recorded near Ironbank — most often seen:

• Little Raven (4,764)
• South Australian Superb Fairy-wren (4,730)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (4,033)
• Common Bronzewing (3,997)
• Black-winged Currawong (3,989)
• Eastern New Holland Honeyeater (3,766)
• Fleurieu Adelaide Rosella (3,684)
• Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (3,390)
• Southern Laughing Kookaburra (3,219)
• Western Red Wattlebird (3,198)
• South Australian Crescent Honeyeater (2,973)
• Eastern Galah (2,755)
• Eurasian Blackbird (2,642)

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 Ironbank:

• Scott Creek (2.3 km)
• Upper Sturt (2.3 km)
• Coromandel East (3.2 km)
• Longwood (3.3 km)
• Cherry Gardens (3.5 km)
• Heathfield (3.5 km)
• Bradbury (3.6 km)
• Crafers West (4.4 km)

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