Biggs Flat SA 5153
Biggs Flat is in Mount Barker LGA, SA, postcode 5153, with population 84.
Usable evidence
Biggs Flat is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Market rent, Population growth, and Building approvals. Treat Property prices, Crime, and Schools as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Biggs Flat has usable rent context. No strong rent pressure, affordability stress, or investor-rent signal is visible from the provided context.
Open matching rent ranking →503 latest-year approvals in Mount Barker, +0.0% YoY; population +3.2% YoY (3.4% 5yr).
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Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
Use current rent as a starting signal, not as a fixed underwriting truth.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Rent context available
Biggs Flat has usable rent context. Snapshot rent $480/wk.
No strong rent pressure, affordability stress, or investor-rent signal is visible from the provided context.
Biggs Flat is usable, but it still needs cross-checking.
Direct signals include Market rent, Population growth, and Building approvals. Treat Property prices, Crime, and Schools as the main gap before this becomes a stronger decision page.
Use compare before shortlisting so the missing evidence is balanced against nearby suburbs.
Market rent, Population growth, Building approvals
No fallback or lower-precision signals flagged.
Property prices, Crime, Schools, Hospitals
Biggs Flat currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Population movement supports a growth-led read. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Population movement supports a growth-led read. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Property prices, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Biggs Flat is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Biggs Flat feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent -$145/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent -$230/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
- Buyers want a quick sense of price, schools, and neighbourhood scale before getting lost in data.
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- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
Price history
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Full data detail
Biggs Flat SA
Biggs Flat is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Mount Barker local government area (postcode 5153). With a population of 84, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 43. Households earn a median income of $85K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +3.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. SA employment has moved +2.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, professionals, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The current median weekly rent is $480. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,980.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +3.2% year-on-year indicates strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Biggs Flat is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Mount Barker local government area (postcode 5153). With a population of 84, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 43. Households earn a median income of $85K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +3.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. SA employment has moved +2.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, professionals, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The current median weekly rent is $480. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,980.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +3.2% year-on-year indicates strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Biggs Flat FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Biggs Flat in?
Biggs Flat is in the Mount Barker Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5153. Council-level context for Mount Barker LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Biggs Flat?
The median weekly rent in Biggs Flat is $480/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is rent context available.
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What does the rent signal say about Biggs Flat?
Rent context available: Biggs Flat has usable rent context. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
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Is Biggs Flat a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Biggs Flat show: Strong Growth, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Biggs Flat?
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
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How often is the Biggs Flat data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.