Meningie West SA 5264
12 addresses · 5 streets
Barker Electorate › Coorong LGA › Meningie West · 97 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Meningie West is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 33 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $1,062 a week, with median rent near $180 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 57% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the The Coorong statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Meningie West itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 9% 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 | 9.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 14.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Meningie West
| 0-4 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 7 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 4 |
| 45-54 | 7 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 4 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Meningie West
| House | 12 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Meningie West
| <$650 | 4 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 13 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 0 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Meningie West
| Australian | 16 |
|---|---|
| English | 9 |
| Scottish | 6 |
| Ancestry NS | 4 |
| Irish | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
Housing tenure in Meningie West
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Meningie West
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Meningie West
| Car | 12 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
5,802 bird observations recorded near Meningie West — most often seen:
- Australian Pelican (450)
- Black Swan (386)
- Masked Lapwing (347)
- Giinbaywarraymal (338)
- Australian Shelduck (335)
- Caspian Tern (282)
- Grey Teal (252)
- Chestnut Teal (229)
- Great Egret (219)
- Great Cormorant (217)
- Pacific Black Duck (211)
- White-faced Heron (201)
- Australian Great Crested Grebe (195)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Meningie West
- Eastern Whiskered Tern (187)
- Australasian Crested Tern (175)
- Common Greenshank (157)
- Red-necked Stint (150)
- Australian Great Pied Cormorant (140)
- Australasian Little Pied Cormorant (127)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (127)
- Australian Fairy Tern (126)
- Red-capped Plover (125)
- Eastern Cape Barren Goose (118)
- Australasian Purple Swamphen (114)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (107)
- Australian White Ibis (nominate Subspecies) (103)
- Little Black Cormorant (100)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (97)
- Little Raven (96)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (91)
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 Meningie West:
- Narrung (13.6 km)
- Meningie (14 km)
- Poltalloch (17.9 km)
- Waltowa (21 km)
- Ashville (23.8 km)
- Point Sturt (26.4 km)
- Mundoo Island (27.3 km)
- Clayton Bay (30.4 km)
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Streets
- Beulah Park Road (4)
- Long Point Road (1)
- Loveday Bay Road (1)
- Narrung Road (5)
- Tulkaneara Road (1)
