Kelly SA 5641
53 addresses · 11 streets
Grey Electorate › Kimba LGA › Kelly · 271 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Kelly is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 59 people, with a median age of 35. The typical household earns around $1,312 a week, with median rent near $150 a week. Most homes are houses. About 38% of households own their home and 31% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 9 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Kimba - Cleve - Franklin Harbour statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Kelly itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Cleve Airport, 54.1 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: 1.8% 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 | 1.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 5.6% |
Demographics
Population by age in Kelly
| 0-4 | 4 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 17 |
| 15-19 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 10 |
| 35-44 | 5 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 7 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 3 |
Dwelling types in Kelly
| House | 16 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Kelly
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 11 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 6 |
| $3,000+ | 4 |
Top ancestries in Kelly
| Australian | 36 |
|---|---|
| English | 28 |
| German | 9 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Kelly
| Owned | 5 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 4 |
Cars per household in Kelly
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Kelly
| Car | 24 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 9 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
85 bird observations recorded near Kelly — most often seen:
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (9)
- Birds (8)
- Southern Weebill (7)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (6)
- Common Bronzewing (5)
- Western White-eared Honeyeater (5)
- Western Grey Shrike-thrush (4)
- Black-shouldered Kite (3)
- Blue-breasted Fairy-wren (3)
- Mainland Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (3)
- Nankeen Kestrel (3)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (2)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (2)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Kelly
- Inland Australian Hobby (2)
- Mainland Australian Owlet-nightjar (2)
- Pallid Cuckoo (2)
- South-western Yellow Robin (2)
- Southern Inland Thornbill (2)
- Southern Rufous Whistler (2)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (2)
- White-browed Babbler (2)
- Black-tailed Native-hen (1)
- Bluebonnet (1)
- Brown Songlark (1)
- Cockatiel (1)
- Dusky Woodswallow (1)
- Eastern Australian Raven (1)
- Eastern Brown Falcon (1)
- Eastern Dusky Woodswallow (1)
- European House Sparrow (1)
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
- Barna-bunora Road (11)
- Cleve Road (5)
- Cowell-kimba Road (8)
- Eyre Highway (2)
- Heggaton Road (3)
- King-hicks Road (1)
- Middleback Road (2)
- Old Cleve Road (7)
- Tiges Road (4)
- Venus Bay Road (7)
- Wild Dog Hill Road (3)
