Port Kenny SA 5671
139 addresses · 10 streets
Grey Electorate › Elliston LGA › Port Kenny · 411 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Port Kenny is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 59 people, with a median age of 52. The typical household earns around $662 a week, with median rent near $100 a week. Most homes are houses. About 85% of households own their home and 15% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. 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 Le Hunte - Elliston statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Port Kenny itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 post office
1 service station
1 golf club
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Streaky Bay Airport, 51.5 km north-west.
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: 9.9% 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 | 9.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 47.2% |
Demographics
Unemployment 10% · Labour-force participation 36.4%
Population by age in Port Kenny
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 3 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 3 |
| 25-34 | 4 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 10 |
| 55-64 | 13 |
| 65-74 | 11 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Port Kenny
| House | 24 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 5 |
Households by weekly income in Port Kenny
| <$650 | 15 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 4 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 4 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Port Kenny
| Australian | 29 |
|---|---|
| English | 24 |
| German | 7 |
| Italian | 7 |
| Ancestry NS | 6 |
| Scottish | 3 |
Housing tenure in Port Kenny
| Owned | 14 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 8 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Port Kenny
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 14 |
| 2 | 14 |
| 3 | 4 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Port Kenny
| Car | 11 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
936 bird observations recorded near Port Kenny — most often seen:
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (65)
- Australian Pelican (56)
- Pied Cormorant (52)
- Pacific Gull (49)
- Red-necked Stint (49)
- Red-capped Plover (46)
- Southern Sooty Oystercatcher (44)
- West Coast Pacific Gull (41)
- Silver Gull (38)
- Giinbaywarraymal (34)
- Little Black Cormorant (33)
- Grey Teal (31)
- Singing Honeyeater (30)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Port Kenny
- Little Pied Cormorant (29)
- Caspian Tern (27)
- Sooty Oystercatcher (27)
- Common Starling (24)
- House Sparrow (24)
- Crested Tern (23)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (23)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (22)
- Chestnut Teal (21)
- Inland Singing Honeyeater (20)
- Masked Lapwing (20)
- Welcome Swallow (20)
- White-faced Heron (20)
- Common Greenshank (18)
- Great Egret (18)
- Nankeen Kestrel (17)
- Banded Stilt (15)
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
- Beach Terrace (29)
- Chintabie Street (30)
- Devon Street (1)
- Flinders Highway (30)
- Little Street (2)
- Main Street (29)
- Pygery-port Kenny Road (2)
- Sunny Street (4)
- Symes Street (2)
- Wheaton Road (10)
