Moculta SA 5353
130 addresses · 19 streets
Barker Electorate › Barossa LGA › Moculta · 69 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Moculta is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 228 people, with a median age of 45. The typical household earns around $1,520 a week, with median rent near $260 a week. Most homes are houses. About 90% of households own their home and 10% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, German, English. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Barossa - Angaston statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Moculta itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 hospital
1 post office
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: 6.6% 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 | 6.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 9.1% |
Demographics
Unemployment 4.8% · Labour-force participation 64.2%
Population by age in Moculta
| 0-4 | 10 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 26 |
| 15-19 | 20 |
| 20-24 | 10 |
| 25-34 | 17 |
| 35-44 | 30 |
| 45-54 | 30 |
| 55-64 | 40 |
| 65-74 | 30 |
| 75-84 | 10 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Moculta
| House | 83 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Moculta
| <$650 | 15 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 24 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 16 |
| $3,000+ | 17 |
Top ancestries in Moculta
| Australian | 87 |
|---|---|
| German | 84 |
| English | 61 |
| Scottish | 16 |
| Irish | 15 |
| Ancestry NS | 14 |
Housing tenure in Moculta
| Owned | 42 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 33 |
| Rented | 8 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Moculta
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
| 2 | 32 |
| 3 | 19 |
| 4+ | 15 |
Commute to work in Moculta
| Car | 93 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 15 |
Top countries of birth in Moculta
| England | 8 |
|---|---|
| South Africa | 6 |
| New Zealand | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,150 bird observations recorded near Moculta — most often seen:
- Crimson Rosella (80)
- Western Striated Pardalote (78)
- Australian Magpie (71)
- Little Raven (63)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (62)
- North-eastern Brown Treecreeper (57)
- Galah (54)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (54)
- Tree Martin (54)
- Musk Lorikeet (43)
- Purple-crowned Lorikeet (38)
- Red Wattlebird (38)
- European Common Starling (37)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Moculta
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (37)
- Noisy Miner (36)
- Southern Magpie-lark (34)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (29)
- Red-rumped Parrot (29)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (27)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (25)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (23)
- South-eastern Red-rumped Parrot (23)
- White-winged Chough (22)
- Eastern Galah (21)
- Eastern Red Wattlebird (21)
- Diamond Firetail (20)
- Eastern Little Corella (20)
- Eastern White-plumed Honeyeater (20)
- House Sparrow (18)
- Eastern New Holland Honeyeater (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 Moculta:
- Penrice (6.4 km)
- Truro (6.7 km)
- Stockwell (7.4 km)
- Angaston (7.6 km)
- Light Pass (8.3 km)
- Keyneton (10.8 km)
- Ebenezer (10.9 km)
- Mount Mckenzie (11.1 km)
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Streets
- Albert Presser Street (1)
- Altmann Street (20)
- David Street (2)
- Duck Ponds Road (3)
- Gnadenberg Road (5)
- Gruenberg Road (4)
- Gum Flat Road (2)
- Hutton Vale Road (6)
- Keyneton Road (5)
- Lindsay Park Road (7)
- Moculta Road (10)
- Parrot Hill Road (4)
- Pipeline Road (2)
- Roberts Road (1)
- Rosenzweig Road (1)
- Sarah Street (1)
- Shannon Road (3)
- Truro Road (51)
- William Street (2)
