Vale Park SA 5081
Vale Park is in Walkerville LGA, SA, postcode 5081, with population 2,452.
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Vale Park has enough direct local evidence for a first-pass decision.
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Vale Park has usable rent context. No strong rent pressure, affordability stress, or investor-rent signal is visible from the provided context.
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Rent context available
Vale Park has usable rent context. Snapshot rent $559/wk.
No strong rent pressure, affordability stress, or investor-rent signal is visible from the provided context.
Vale Park has enough direct local evidence for a first-pass decision.
Direct signals include Property prices, Market rent, Crime, and Schools. Missing or weaker areas are still shown so the page does not overstate precision.
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Property prices, Market rent, Crime, Schools
No fallback or lower-precision signals flagged.
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Vale Park currently reads as a growth-momentum candidate.
Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Transport coverage adds a practical access signal. Premium pricing raises the bar for yield, affordability, and downside checks. Gross yield looks low for an income-first use case.
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Recent price movement shows visible market momentum. Transport coverage adds a practical access signal. Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
Premium pricing raises the bar for yield, affordability, and downside checks. Gross yield looks low for an income-first use case.
No decisive evidence gap was detected from the current inputs.
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Vale Park SA
Vale Park is a smaller suburb in South Australia within the Walkerville local government area (postcode 5081). With a population of 2,452, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 42. Households earn a median income of $106K 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 +0.9% 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 professionals, managers, clerical & administrative. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Italian.
The median house price in Vale Park is $1.6 million, having surged 16.6% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $559. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.9%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,000.
Vale Park is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1097, which is above the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 10 bus stops. The crime rate in the Walkerville LGA is below average at 3,956 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Vale Park offers a gross rental yield of 1.9%, rated as low yield. Property prices are above the state median ($1.6M/$950K), placing it in the premium segment. The price-to-income ratio of 14.8x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +16.6% year-on-year. Population growth of +0.9% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Vale Park is a smaller suburb in South Australia within the Walkerville local government area (postcode 5081). With a population of 2,452, the suburb has an established demographic with a median age of 42. Households earn a median income of $106K 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 +0.9% 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 professionals, managers, clerical & administrative. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Italian.
The median house price in Vale Park is $1.6 million, having surged 16.6% over the past year. The current median weekly rent is $559. This gives a gross rental yield of approximately 1.9%. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $2,000.
Vale Park is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1097, which is above the national average of 1,000. Public transport access includes 10 bus stops. The crime rate in the Walkerville LGA is below average at 3,956 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Vale Park offers a gross rental yield of 1.9%, rated as low yield. Property prices are above the state median ($1.6M/$950K), placing it in the premium segment. The price-to-income ratio of 14.8x is considered stretched. House prices have moved +16.6% year-on-year. Population growth of +0.9% year-on-year indicates stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Vale Park FAQ
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What LGA is Vale Park in?
Vale Park is in the Walkerville Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5081. Council-level context for Walkerville LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the median house price in Vale Park?
The current median house price in Vale Park, SA is $1.6M, based on the latest available sales data from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Vale Park?
The median weekly rent in Vale Park is $559/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 Vale Park?
Rent context available: Vale Park 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 Vale Park a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Vale Park show: Low Yield, Above Median, Stretched. 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 Vale Park?
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 Vale Park 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.