Median elevation
39 m
range 0–132 m
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Housing
Whyalla Barson
South Australia · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Whyalla Barson is a leafy residential suburb of Whyalla.
Median house price
No Valuer-General median for Whyalla Barson.
South Australia's open Valuer-General suburb median feed covers metropolitan Adelaide only. We have no median for Whyalla Barson from this feed. ABS median established-house price, Greater Adelaide: $980k; Rest of SA: $595k.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
1.5%
0.7% below 2 m
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
Zoning mix (share of the suburb's land)
Show on map →- Conservation48%
- Industrial & employment23%
- Rural21%
- Open space & recreation7.7%
- Waterways0.3%
- Infrastructure & special purpose0.1%
- General / medium / high-density residential<0.1%
- Low-density residential<0.1%
In a heritage area
<0.1%
conservation area / Heritage Overlay
Show on map →Listed heritage places
1
local & State places in the Code
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.
Local amenities
Schools
0
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
0
Parks
3
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
3.8 km
Nearest train
58.3 km
Nearest hospital
5.4 km
Distance to coast
3.6 km
Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 4.1 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Whyalla · 79% of residents
- Also spans
- Unincorporated SA (21%)
- Population
- 21,720 (2025) · -0.7% in a year
- Area / density
- 1,071 km² · 20/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 41 · $1,188/wk household income · $180/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $330k
- Federal grants
- $6.69M in 2025-26 · $308/resident
- Website
- whyalla.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
- Giles
- State MP
- Eddie Hughes (ALP)
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.