Wilgena SA 5719
3 addresses · 2 streets
Grey Electorate › Unincorporated SA LGA › Wilgena · 586 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Wilgena is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 40 people, with a median age of 22. The typical household earns around $2,625 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 44% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include Australian, English, Scottish. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 4 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Outback statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Wilgena 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: 0.2% 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 | 0.2% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 0.1% |
Demographics
Population by age in Wilgena
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 3 |
| 15-19 | 3 |
| 20-24 | 12 |
| 25-34 | 13 |
| 35-44 | 6 |
| 45-54 | 0 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 0 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Wilgena
| House | 7 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Wilgena
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 8 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Wilgena
| Australian | 21 |
|---|---|
| English | 16 |
| Scottish | 10 |
| Ancestry NS | 9 |
| Aboriginal | 4 |
| Chinese | 0 |
Housing tenure in Wilgena
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 4 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Wilgena
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Wilgena
| Car | 7 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 13 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 5 |
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
55 bird observations recorded near Wilgena — most often seen:
- South-western Black-faced Woodswallow (5)
- Chestnut-rumped Thornbill (4)
- Redthroat (4)
- Splendid Fairy-wren (4)
- White-browed Babbler (4)
- Singing Honeyeater (3)
- Galah (2)
- Little Crow (2)
- Mainland Wedge-tailed Eagle (2)
- South-east Southern Whiteface (2)
- Southern White-browed Babbler (2)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (2)
- Western Slender-billed Thornbill (2)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Wilgena
- Australasian Grebe (1)
- Australian Magpie (1)
- Australian Pipit (1)
- Birds (1)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (1)
- Black-faced Woodswallow (1)
- Black-winged Stilt (1)
- Bourke's Parrot (1)
- Brown Falcon (1)
- Common Bronzewing (1)
- Crested Pigeon (1)
- Eastern Australian Raven (1)
- Eastern Little Corella (1)
- Emu (1)
- Eyre Peninsula Australian Magpie (1)
- Hoary-headed Grebe (1)
- Inland Black-faced Woodswallow (1)
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 Wilgena:
- Tarcoola (19.7 km)
- Mulgathing (52.7 km)
- Kingoonya (56.9 km)
- Kokatha (72.3 km)
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Streets
- North Well Road (1)
- Tarcoola Road (2)