Wanilla SA 5607
72 addresses · 17 streets
Grey Electorate › Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA › Wanilla · 270 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Wanilla is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 95 people, with a median age of 48. The typical household earns around $1,468 a week, with median rent near $115 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Eyre Peninsula statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Wanilla itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 park
1 post office
Getting around. Airport: Port Lincoln Airport, 19.9 km south-east.
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: 9.8% 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 | 9.8% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 12.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 3.6% · Labour-force participation 74.3%
Population by age in Wanilla
| 0-4 | 8 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 15 |
| 15-19 | 5 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 14 |
| 35-44 | 3 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 16 |
| 65-74 | 24 |
| 75-84 | 3 |
| 85+ | 3 |
Dwelling types in Wanilla
| House | 35 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Wanilla
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 15 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 14 |
| $3,000+ | 8 |
Top ancestries in Wanilla
| Australian | 45 |
|---|---|
| English | 41 |
| Ancestry NS | 10 |
| German | 8 |
| Irish | 5 |
| Other | 4 |
Housing tenure in Wanilla
| Owned | 14 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 16 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Wanilla
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 15 |
| 3 | 9 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Wanilla
| Car | 25 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 15 |
Top countries of birth in Wanilla
| England | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,719 bird observations recorded near Wanilla — most often seen:
- Western Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (150)
- Galah (91)
- South Australian Superb Fairy-wren (89)
- Western Striated Pardalote (89)
- Eastern Galah (87)
- Eastern New Holland Honeyeater (72)
- Southern Weebill (69)
- Rainbow Lorikeet (68)
- Little Raven (67)
- Western Red Wattlebird (65)
- South Australian Silvereye (62)
- Superb Fairy-wren (61)
- Port Lincoln Parrot (60)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Wanilla
- South-eastern Grey Fantail (58)
- Silvereye (55)
- Weebill (55)
- Grey Fantail (51)
- Brown Currawong (45)
- New Holland Honeyeater (44)
- Red Wattlebird (44)
- Australian Ringneck (41)
- Common Starling (41)
- South Australian Golden Whistler (41)
- Nullarbor Coast Spotted Scrubwren (38)
- Striated Pardalote (33)
- Common Bronzewing (30)
- Dusky Woodswallow (29)
- Southern Laughing Kookaburra (29)
- Grey Currawong (28)
- Eastern Welcome Swallow (27)
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 Wanilla:
- Fountain (8.6 km)
- Pearlah (8.9 km)
- Charlton Gully (10.8 km)
- Green Patch (11.6 km)
- Edillilie (12.5 km)
- Coomunga (14.1 km)
- Whites Flat (15.7 km)
- Tootenilla (17.4 km)
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Streets
- Bald Hill Road (6)
- Charlton Gully Road (6)
- Charlton Terrace (5)
- Exchange Road (6)
- Hut Road (1)
- Lincoln Terrace (5)
- Merintha Creek Road (1)
- Mortlock Street (9)
- Peake Lane (2)
- Proude Gully Road (3)
- Settlers Road (1)
- Strawberry Hill Road (3)
- Tod Highway (6)
- Wangary Street (10)
- Wanilla Terrace (4)
- Warunda Road (2)
- Wylie Road (2)
