Proof Range SA 5550
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Grey Electorate › Wakefield LGA › Proof Range · 84 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Proof Range is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 20 people, with a median age of 28. The typical household earns around $2,062 a week, with median rent near $259 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 63% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Wakefield - Barunga West statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Proof Range itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 beach
1 golf club
Getting around. Bus interchange: Greyhound, 8.4 km north.
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: 0.9% 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 | 0.9% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.8% |
Demographics
Population by age in Proof Range
| 0-4 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 4 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Proof Range
| House | 10 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Proof Range
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 12 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Proof Range
| Australian | 10 |
|---|---|
| English | 7 |
| Other | 7 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Proof Range
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 5 |
| Other | 3 |
Cars per household in Proof Range
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Proof Range
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 10 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
10,916 bird observations recorded near Proof Range — most often seen:
- Red-necked Stint (564)
- Caspian Tern (549)
- Crested Tern (545)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (499)
- Australian Pelican (495)
- Red-capped Plover (494)
- Great Egret (427)
- Pied Cormorant (426)
- Silver Gull (421)
- Little Pied Cormorant (415)
- Ruddy Turnstone (412)
- White-faced Heron (411)
- Pacific Gull (402)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Proof Range
- Singing Honeyeater (399)
- Red Knot (344)
- Grey Plover (330)
- Australian White Ibis (326)
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper (324)
- Bar-tailed Godwit (321)
- Curlew Sandpiper (319)
- Nankeen Kestrel (305)
- Little Raven (293)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (264)
- Common Starling (256)
- Fairy Tern (249)
- Little Black Cormorant (240)
- Willie Wagtail (229)
- White-fronted Chat (223)
- Little Egret (219)
- Royal Spoonbill (215)
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 Proof Range:
- Inkerman (7.3 km)
- Port Wakefield (8 km)
- Kallora (13 km)
- Bowmans (13.5 km)
- Wild Horse Plains (13.9 km)
- Clinton (15 km)
- Avon (15.4 km)
- Price (17.5 km)
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Streets
- Proof Range Road (1)