Taunton SA 5235
9 addresses · 5 streets
Barker Electorate › Barossa LGA › Taunton · 52 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Taunton is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 7 people, with a median age of 58. The typical household earns around $450 a week. Most homes are houses. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Barossa - Angaston statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Taunton itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 café or restaurant
1 hospital
Getting around. Airport: Adelaide Airport, 58.4 km south-west.
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: 3.3% 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 | 3.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 0.5% |
Demographics
Population by age in Taunton
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 3 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Taunton
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Taunton
| English | 6 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 3 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Cars per household in Taunton
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
974 bird observations recorded near Taunton — most often seen:
- Australian Magpie (87)
- Crimson Rosella (83)
- Galah (78)
- Little Raven (67)
- Western Striated Pardalote (53)
- Yellow-rumped Thornbill (46)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (38)
- Red Wattlebird (37)
- Superb Fairy-wren (35)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (34)
- Grey Shrike-thrush (33)
- Tree Martin (32)
- White-plumed Honeyeater (32)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Taunton
- Australian Wood Duck (27)
- Yellow-faced Honeyeater (26)
- European Common Starling (25)
- Grey Fantail (23)
- Musk Lorikeet (23)
- New Holland Honeyeater (22)
- Eastern Little Corella (20)
- Sulphur-crested Cockatoo (19)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (18)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (17)
- Red-rumped Parrot (16)
- European House Sparrow (15)
- Southern Magpie-lark (15)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (14)
- House Sparrow (13)
- Nankeen Kestrel (13)
- North-eastern Brown Treecreeper (13)
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 Taunton:
- Springton (2.9 km)
- Eden Valley (4.2 km)
- Flaxman Valley (8.8 km)
- Mount Crawford (10 km)
- Mount Pleasant (10.4 km)
- Pewsey Vale (12.1 km)
- Cromer (13.4 km)
- Mount Mckenzie (13.4 km)
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Streets
- C Kuchels Road (1)
- Cemetery Road (3)
- Eden Valley Road (3)
- Foulds Road (1)
- Shearers Road (1)