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Kappawanta
South Australia · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Kappawanta is a leafy residential suburb of Elliston.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Kappawanta.
South Australia's open Valuer-General suburb median feed covers metropolitan Adelaide only. We have no median for Kappawanta from this feed. ABS median established-house price, Greater Adelaide: $980k; Rest of SA: $595k.
How it compares
Percentiles rank this suburb against South Australia suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in South Australia and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Terrain & hazard exposure
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area; where part of a suburb is unmapped, only its mapped land counts, so the share is a floor. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Not yet assessed: the Code applies its precautionary Evidence Required overlay to most of this suburb. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Covers the Code's High, Medium, General and Urban Interface bushfire overlays. Land under its precautionary Regional and Outback overlays has not been assessed and is shown as no statutory layer. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
Planning instrument: Planning and Design Code. Zones are grouped into ten families so states compare; the council's own scheme is the authority for any one lot. Listed-place counts follow each state's own list, so they do not compare across states. Source: SA Planning and Design Code zones; SA Code heritage & character overlays.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 39.7 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Elliston
- Population
- 1,057 (2025) · +0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 6,742 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 44 · $1,135/wk household income · $150/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $320k
- Federal grants
- $1.55M in 2025-26 · $1,464/resident
- Website
- elliston.sa.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Grey
- Federal MP
- Tom Venning (LP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 55% 2PP
- State electorate
- Flinders
- State MP
- Sam Telfer (LIB)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Planning and Design Code overlays (Hazards — Flooding, and Flooding — General), Government of South Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU); Planning and Design Code overlays (Hazards — Bushfire), Government of South Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU); Planning and Design Code Zones, Government of South Australia (PlanSA) (CC BY 3.0 AU); Planning and Design Code Overlays (heritage and character), Government of South Australia (PlanSA) (CC BY 3.0 AU); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.