Loveday SA 5345
354 addresses · 26 streets
Barker Electorate › Berri Barmera LGA › Loveday · 183 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Loveday is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 655 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $1,379 a week, with median rent near $230 a week. Most homes are houses. About 88% of households own their home and 9% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. 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 Barmera statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Loveday itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 hardware store
2 places to stay
Getting around. Airport: Renmark Airport, 24.1 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: 20% 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 | 20.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 49.5% |
Demographics
Unemployment 4.1% · Labour-force participation 60.7%
Population by age in Loveday
| 0-4 | 29 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 104 |
| 15-19 | 37 |
| 20-24 | 20 |
| 25-34 | 59 |
| 35-44 | 91 |
| 45-54 | 79 |
| 55-64 | 98 |
| 65-74 | 99 |
| 75-84 | 26 |
| 85+ | 7 |
Dwelling types in Loveday
| House | 250 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Loveday
| <$650 | 46 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 87 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 76 |
| $3,000+ | 22 |
Top ancestries in Loveday
| Australian | 292 |
|---|---|
| English | 274 |
| German | 86 |
| Scottish | 39 |
| Irish | 36 |
| Ancestry NS | 36 |
Housing tenure in Loveday
| Owned | 96 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 116 |
| Rented | 22 |
| Other | 6 |
Cars per household in Loveday
| 0 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 58 |
| 2 | 93 |
| 3 | 52 |
| 4+ | 41 |
Commute to work in Loveday
| Car | 239 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 29 |
Top countries of birth in Loveday
| England | 22 |
|---|---|
| Greece | 9 |
| India | 7 |
| New Zealand | 6 |
| Germany | 3 |
| Italy | 3 |
Languages used at home in Loveday
| Greek | 18 |
|---|---|
| Punjabi | 7 |
| German | 3 |
| Italian | 3 |
| Polish | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
2,701 bird observations recorded near Loveday — most often seen:
- Australian Pelican (168)
- Eastern Regent Parrot (140)
- Noisy Miner (133)
- Whistling Kite (130)
- Magpie-lark (115)
- Australian Magpie (111)
- Galah (109)
- Silver Gull (109)
- Welcome Swallow (103)
- Rock Dove (102)
- Australian Wood Duck (96)
- Little Black Cormorant (96)
- Crested Pigeon (94)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Loveday
- Masked Lapwing (86)
- Great Cormorant (85)
- Crimson Rosella (84)
- Black Swan (83)
- Common Starling (83)
- White-faced Heron (72)
- Little Pied Cormorant (71)
- Straw-necked Ibis (66)
- Caspian Tern (65)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (65)
- Grey Teal (65)
- Yellow Rosella (65)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (64)
- Eurasian Coot (62)
- Australasian Darter (61)
- Australian White Ibis (61)
- Australian Raven (57)
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 Loveday:
- Barmera (4.5 km)
- Cobdogla (5 km)
- Spectacle Lake (5.5 km)
- Moorook South (6.4 km)
- Moorook (7.9 km)
- Winkie (9 km)
- Glossop (9.6 km)
- Kingston On Murray (10.5 km)
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Streets
- Anderson Road (4)
- Bassham Road (4)
- Caddy Road (22)
- Coates Road (6)
- Costello Road (22)
- Forward Avenue (7)
- Gilmour Road (7)
- Gordon Road (9)
- Graham Street (6)
- Hoffman Road (15)
- Hunt Road (49)
- Loveday Road (21)
- Mckenzie Road (9)
- Morris Street (42)
- Pfeiffer Road (4)
- Rawnsley Road (17)
- Renfrey Road (1)
- Schell Road (8)
- Schramm Drive (6)
- Slaughter Road (15)
- Stockdale Road (3)
- Swinstead Road (11)
- Thiele Road (52)
- Whateley Road (5)
- Wilkinson Road (5)
- Yeo Road (4)
