Located in South Australia within the Lower Eyre Peninsula local government area, Sleaford is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 5607). With a population of 31, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 53. Households earn a median income of $84K per year, with an average household size of 2.6 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 professionals, managers, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $210 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $825.
The crime rate in the Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA is higher than average at 19,355 incidents per 100,000 population.