Porter Lagoon SA 5416
3 addresses · 2 streets
Grey Electorate › Goyder LGA › Porter Lagoon · 124 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Porter Lagoon is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 8 people, with a median age of 43. The typical household earns around $2,250 a week. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, Aboriginal, Chinese. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 6 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Goyder statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Porter Lagoon itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 golf club
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: 0.7% 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 | 0.7% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 0.2% |
Demographics
Top ancestries in Porter Lagoon
| Australian | 8 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
| English | 0 |
Commute to work in Porter Lagoon
| Car | 3 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
654 bird observations recorded near Porter Lagoon — most often seen:
- Australian Shelduck (57)
- Nankeen Kestrel (39)
- Red-capped Plover (38)
- Grey Teal (37)
- Australian Magpie (33)
- Galah (30)
- Little Raven (29)
- Masked Lapwing (29)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (27)
- Southern Masked Lapwing (27)
- Common Starling (26)
- Red-necked Avocet (21)
- Willie Wagtail (21)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Porter Lagoon
- Eastern Galah (19)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (17)
- Black Swan (16)
- Black-shouldered Kite (16)
- Giinbaywarraymal (16)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (15)
- Magpie-lark (15)
- Red Wattlebird (15)
- Silver Gull (15)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (14)
- Banded Stilt (13)
- Brown Songlark (13)
- Pacific Black Duck (13)
- Yellow-throated Miner (12)
- Crested Pigeon (11)
- Southern Magpie-lark (11)
- Dusky Woodswallow (9)
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 Porter Lagoon:
- Koonoona (5.4 km)
- Black Springs (6.2 km)
- Farrell Flat (7.3 km)
- Hanson (9.6 km)
- Apoinga (11.2 km)
- Stanley (12.5 km)
- Emu Downs (13.1 km)
- Mintaro (16.5 km)
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Streets
- Barrier Highway (2)
- Mickel Road (1)