Parrakie is a sparsely populated locality in South Australia within the Southern Mallee local government area (postcode 5301). The area has roughly 78 residents and an older-leaning population, with a median age of 53. Households earn a median income of $72K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at -0.2% year-on-year at the LGA level. SA employment has moved +1.6% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 21 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 7 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, labourers, sales. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, German.
The median weekly rent is $100 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,008.
The crime rate in the Southern Mallee LGA is moderate at 5,128 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of -0.2% year-on-year points to declining demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.