Port Willunga SA 5173

Living Here

Port Willunga is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 1,785 people, with a median age of 44. The typical household earns around $1,313 a week, with median rent near $328 a week. Most homes are houses. About 76% of households own their home and 23% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 3 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area. The median house sells for about $1,175,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Aldinga statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Port Willunga itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 3 schools

  • Aldinga Beach Primary School
  • Cardjin College Galilee Campus
  • Aldinga Payinthi College
• 4 cafés & restaurants

  • Star of Greece
  • The Little Rickshaw
  • Goodness Coffee Co
  • The Old Vine Cafe
• 3 supermarkets

  • Coles
  • Drakes
  • ALDI
• 5 parks

  • Skoda Street Reserve
  • Kadli Wirra
  • Mukutilla/John Lawrie Reserve
  • Hart Road Wetlands
  • John Nicholl Reserve
• 1 Catholic church

  • Seaford Christian Churches
• 2 doctors & medical clinics

  • Aldinga Medical Centre
  • The Rowley Road Clinic
• 2 hospitals

  • McLaren Vale and Districts War Memorial Hospital
  • Noarlunga Health Service
• 2 libraries

  • Aldinga Library
  • Aldinga Public Library
• 1 post office

  • Australia Post
• 1 service station

  • OTR Aldinga
• 1 gym

  • Anytime Fitness
• 1 golf club

  • Willunga Golf Course
• 1 bakery

  • Home Grain Barkery
• 1 hardware store

  • Mitre 10
• 1 mechanic

  • Aldinga Crash Repairs
• 2 places to stay

  • BIG4 Port Willunga Tourist Park
  • Amonde B&B

Getting around. Bus interchange: Seaford, 8.6 km north · Airport: Adelaide Airport, 36.4 km north.

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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.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Metropolitan Median House Sales, Valuer-General South Australia.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 11.9% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 6.3% · Labour-force participation 57.3%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

25,179 bird observations recorded near Port Willunga — most often seen:

• Little Raven (1,391)
• Common Starling (1,248)
• Red Wattlebird (1,079)
• Australian Magpie (1,074)
• Superb Fairy-wren (1,065)
• Little Pied Cormorant (1,014)
• White-faced Heron (945)
• House Sparrow (943)
• New Holland Honeyeater (928)
• Rainbow Lorikeet (868)
• Western Red Wattlebird (853)
• Mistletoebird (831)
• Eurasian Blackbird (819)

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 Port Willunga:

• Aldinga (1.7 km)
• Aldinga Beach (1.9 km)
• Maslin Beach (4.2 km)
• Whites Valley (5.3 km)
• Tatachilla (5.3 km)
• Sellicks Hill (5.8 km)
• Moana (6.4 km)
• Seaford Rise (7.2 km)

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