Whites River SA 5607
8 addresses · 4 streets
Grey Electorate › Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA › Whites River · 248 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Whites River is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 9 people, with a median age of 51. The typical household earns around $1,625 a week. Most homes are houses. About 100% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include Irish, Australian, French. 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 Eyre Peninsula statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Whites River itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 golf club
Getting around. Airport: Port Lincoln Airport, 14.1 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: 2.1% 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 | 2.1% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 2.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Whites River
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 6 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Whites River
| House | 3 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Whites River
| Irish | 5 |
|---|---|
| Australian | 4 |
| French | 4 |
| Aboriginal | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
Housing tenure in Whites River
| Owned | 7 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Whites River
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 3 |
Commute to work in Whites River
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
187 bird observations recorded near Whites River — most often seen:
- Nankeen Kestrel (32)
- Red-capped Plover (32)
- Giinbaywarraymal (23)
- West Coast Pacific Gull (9)
- Black-shouldered Kite (7)
- Brown Falcon (6)
- Cape Barren Goose (6)
- Common Starling (6)
- Diamond Firetail (6)
- Western Yellow-tailed Black-cockatoo (6)
- Southern Sooty Oystercatcher (5)
- Galah (4)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (4)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Whites River
- Southern Willie Wagtail (4)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (3)
- Eastern Barn Owl (3)
- Eastern Cape Barren Goose (3)
- Inland Australian Hobby (3)
- Singing Honeyeater (3)
- Crested Pigeon (2)
- Eastern Australian Raven (2)
- Eastern Brown Falcon (2)
- Eurasian Skylark (2)
- Grey Fantail (2)
- Grey Teal (2)
- House Sparrow (2)
- Little Eagle (2)
- Little Raven (2)
- Magpie-lark (2)
- Mainland Wedge-tailed Eagle (2)
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 Whites River:
- Louth Bay (5.9 km)
- Whites Flat (7.9 km)
- Koppio (10.2 km)
- Poonindie (10.9 km)
- Charlton Gully (14.1 km)
- Point Boston (14.7 km)
- North Shields (15.8 km)
- Green Patch (18 km)
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Streets
- Hammonds Road (1)
- Lincoln Highway (4)
- Moonlight Bay Road (2)
- Myalpa Road (1)