Rapid Bay SA 5204
38 addresses · 6 streets
Mayo Electorate › Yankalilla LGA › Rapid Bay · 76 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Rapid Bay is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 15 people, with a median age of 56. The typical household earns around $450 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Common community backgrounds include Ancestry NS, English, Australian. 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 Yankalilla statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Rapid Bay itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 golf club
2 places to stay
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: 1.1% 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 | 1.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.3% |
Demographics
Unemployment 20% · Labour-force participation 35.7%
Population by age in Rapid Bay
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Rapid Bay
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Rapid Bay
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
|---|---|
| Other | 4 |
| English | 3 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Rapid Bay
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,821 bird observations recorded near Rapid Bay — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (492)
- Galah (85)
- Little Raven (84)
- Silver Gull (79)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (71)
- Western Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (71)
- Fleurieu Adelaide Rosella (67)
- Birds (56)
- Pacific Gull (49)
- Crimson Rosella (48)
- Crested Tern (44)
- Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (43)
- Welcome Swallow (42)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Rapid Bay
- New Holland Honeyeater (38)
- South Australian Superb Fairy-wren (38)
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (38)
- Eastern Galah (36)
- European Goldfinch (36)
- Rock Dove (36)
- Eastern Grey Shrike-thrush (35)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (35)
- Singing Honeyeater (35)
- Willie Wagtail (35)
- Superb Fairy-wren (34)
- Common Starling (33)
- Little Corella (33)
- White-faced Heron (33)
- Crested Pigeon (32)
- Eastern New Holland Honeyeater (32)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (31)
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 Rapid Bay:
- Second Valley (2.7 km)
- Delamere (5 km)
- Wirrina Cove (5.5 km)
- Silverton (9.6 km)
- Deep Creek (10.7 km)
- Cape Jervis (11.4 km)
- Hay Flat (12.7 km)
- Parawa (13.7 km)
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Streets
- Cygnet Place (30)
- Essington Lewis Drive (1)
- Finniss Drive (1)
- Main South Road (2)
- No Where Else Road (2)
- Rapid Bay Road (2)