Taplan SA 5311
34 addresses · 8 streets
Barker Electorate › Loxton Waikerie LGA › Taplan · 213 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Taplan is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 41 people, with a median age of 50. The typical household earns around $762 a week, with median rent near $100 a week. Most homes are houses. About 80% of households own their home and 20% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, German. 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 Loxton Region statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Taplan itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 0.1% 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 | 0.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 1.7% |
Demographics
Unemployment 13.3% · Labour-force participation 50%
Population by age in Taplan
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 7 |
| 15-19 | 7 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 3 |
| 35-44 | 5 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 5 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Taplan
| House | 18 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Taplan
| <$650 | 6 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 3 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 3 |
| $3,000+ | 3 |
Top ancestries in Taplan
| Australian | 13 |
|---|---|
| English | 10 |
| German | 8 |
| Irish | 8 |
| Other | 7 |
| Ancestry NS | 5 |
Housing tenure in Taplan
| Owned | 12 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 3 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Taplan
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 12 |
| 3 | 3 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Taplan
| Car | 5 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 5 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
400 bird observations recorded near Taplan — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (26)
- Galah (24)
- Bluebonnet (23)
- Willie Wagtail (21)
- White-winged Chough (20)
- Crested Pigeon (19)
- Singing Honeyeater (18)
- House Sparrow (16)
- Little Raven (16)
- Yellow-throated Miner (16)
- Australian Ringneck (15)
- Australian Pipit (14)
- Nankeen Kestrel (14)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Taplan
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (13)
- Australian Raven (12)
- Brown Falcon (11)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (11)
- Common Starling (10)
- Grey Butcherbird (10)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (10)
- Banded Lapwing (9)
- Black-faced Woodswallow (9)
- Major Mitchell's Cockatoo (9)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (9)
- Apostlebird (8)
- Common Bronzewing (8)
- Striated Pardalote (8)
- Black-shouldered Kite (7)
- Chestnut-crowned Babbler (7)
- Magpie-lark (7)
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
- Barton Road (1)
- Clark Road (2)
- Hampel Road (2)
- Mount China Road (7)
- Rollbusch Road (4)
- Taplan Road (14)
- The Dog Fence Road (2)
- Wolseley Street (2)