Poonindie is in Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA, SA, postcode 5607, with population 210.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
83% of homes here are owner-occupied and 19% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
83% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 9% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 90% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,326/mo, while renters pay about $650/mo — owning runs $676/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 7% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $500/wk income).
Getting to work: 73% drive, 0% public transport, 0% walk or cycle, 11% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Eyre Peninsula SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in South Australia within the Lower Eyre Peninsula local government area, Poonindie is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 5607). The area has roughly 210 residents and a mix of young professionals and families, with a median age of 34. Households earn a median income of $85K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 people. 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 sales, technicians & trades, managers. Employment in the area leans toward retail trade and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Aboriginal Australian.
The median weekly rent is $150 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,326.
Poonindie is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 984, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA is low at 1,905 incidents per 100,000 population.
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Poonindie leans on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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Official quarterly house sales workbooks; units remain on ABS fallback coverage
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This page stays indexable because Poonindie 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.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Poonindie is in the Lower Eyre Peninsula Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5607. Council-level context for Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Poonindie is $150/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.