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Olympic Dam
South Australia · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Olympic Dam is a bushland suburb of Roxby Downs.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Olympic Dam.
South Australia's open Valuer-General suburb median feed covers metropolitan Adelaide only. We have no median for Olympic Dam 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
Who lives here
- In the labour force
- 64%
- +4 pts vs SA
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 12%
- −10 pts vs SA
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 1%
- −26 pts vs SA
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 37%
- +28 pts vs SA
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. SA figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. 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. Not yet assessed: the Code applies its precautionary Regional or Outback bushfire overlay to most of this suburb. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled.
Planning & zoning
- Rural63%
- Conservation29%
- Infrastructure & special purpose3.4%
- Industrial & employment2.6%
- Low-density residential1.8%
- Growth area, deferred or unzoned0.4%
- Centres & mixed use<0.1%
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.
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 35%
- Top language at home
- Tagalog · 4%
- No religion
- 35%
- Born overseas
- 30%
- English only at home
- 80%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 8.7 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Roxby Downs
- Population
- 4,089 (2025) · -0.2% in a year
- Area / density
- 111 km² · 37/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 31 · $3,140/wk household income · $260/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $283k
- Federal grants
- $727k in 2025-26 · $178/resident
- Website
- roxbydowns.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
- Stuart
- State MP
- Geoff Brock (IND)
Where it is in South Australia
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Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (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.