Yelta SA 5558
35 addresses · 6 streets
Grey Electorate › Copper Coast LGA › Yelta · 132 km from Adelaide
Living Here
Yelta is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 21 people, with a median age of 58. The typical household earns around $350 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 Australian, Irish, Aboriginal. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Moonta statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Yelta itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
4 cafés & restaurants
1 supermarket
1 post office
1 service station
2 golf clubs
2 bakeries
1 butcher
1 hardware store
1 beauty salon
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: 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 | 1.0% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 5.6% |
Demographics
Unemployment 22.2% · Labour-force participation 56.3%
Population by age in Yelta
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 0 |
| 15-19 | 5 |
| 20-24 | 0 |
| 25-34 | 0 |
| 35-44 | 0 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 3 |
| 65-74 | 3 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Yelta
| House | 8 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Top ancestries in Yelta
| Australian | 5 |
|---|---|
| Irish | 5 |
| Aboriginal | 4 |
| English | 4 |
| Croatian | 3 |
| Dutch | 3 |
Housing tenure in Yelta
| Owned | 4 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Yelta
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 3 |
| 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 6 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Yelta
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 3 |
Top countries of birth in Yelta
| England | 3 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
1,171 bird observations recorded near Yelta — most often seen:
- Common Starling (79)
- Rock Dove (71)
- House Sparrow (58)
- Crested Pigeon (52)
- Eurasian Blackbird (47)
- Silver Gull (47)
- Red Wattlebird (46)
- Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater (46)
- Australian Magpie (45)
- Australian Pied Oystercatcher (43)
- Magpie-lark (42)
- Singing Honeyeater (41)
- Galah (40)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Yelta
- Welcome Swallow (40)
- White-browed Babbler (36)
- Nankeen Kestrel (35)
- Willie Wagtail (35)
- Spotted Turtle-dove (33)
- Little Raven (32)
- Western Red Wattlebird (32)
- South-eastern Singing Honeyeater (31)
- Southern Willie Wagtail (30)
- Giinbaywarraymal (29)
- Pacific Gull (28)
- Red-capped Plover (28)
- Southern Magpie-lark (28)
- Eastern Crested Pigeon (26)
- Eastern Galah (24)
- Pied Cormorant (24)
- Little Pied Cormorant (23)
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 Yelta:
- Cross Roads (0.5 km)
- North Yelta (1.1 km)
- Paramatta (1.8 km)
- Moonta Mines (2 km)
- North Moonta (2.2 km)
- East Moonta (2.3 km)
- Moonta (2.3 km)
- Hamley (2.6 km)
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Streets
- Browning Road (5)
- Carlier Lane (4)
- Creswell Terrace (2)
- Kadina Road (20)
- Mines Road (2)
- Warmington Road (2)