IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 1,039
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within Western AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Western Australia economy.
Housing
Salmon Gums
Western Australia · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Salmon Gums is a bushland suburb of Esperance.
Household income
$900/wk7th pctile
of 1,587 WA suburbs
Amenity score
9/10037th pctile
of 743 rated WA suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Salmon Gums.
Western Australia sells its property sales records through licensed brokers rather than publishing them openly, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Perth: $1.0M; Rest of WA: $661k.
How it compares
Household income / wk7th percentile
<$450ABS Census 2021$3,750+
Percentiles rank this suburb against Western 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 Western Australia and nationally, not a household-weighted median.
People & housing
Population
146
Median age
48 yrs
Income / person / wk
$604
Household income / wk
$900
▼ 45% vs WA
Median rent / wk
$104
Mortgage / month
$661
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 35%
- +2 pts vs WA
- Living alone
- 25%
- level with WA
- In the labour force
- 72%
- +8 pts vs WA
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 9%
- −15 pts vs WA
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 27%
- +5 pts vs WA
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 14%
- −1 pts vs WA
Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. WA 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.
Housing stock
55 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 95%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 5%
WA: 80% separate houses · 7% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 53%
- Mortgaged 5%
- Rented 11%
- Other & not stated 31%
WA: 29% owned outright · 40% mortgaged · 27% rented
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.
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 1,054
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 8 of 10
Within Western AustraliaDecile 7 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 1,039
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 6 of 10
Within Western AustraliaDecile 6 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 1,083
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Within Western AustraliaDecile 10 of 10
Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).
Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
Terrain & hazard exposure
Median elevation
250 m
range 216–313 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% 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. Designated for development control; a designation, not a prediction of fire behaviour. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood layer is published for Western Australia yet.
Local amenities
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
1
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
75.7 km
Nearest train
32.1 km
Nearest hospital
75.3 km
Distance to coast
107 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).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 54%
- Top language at home
- Italian · 2%
- No religion
- 54%
- Born overseas
- 12%
- English only at home
- 93%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 0
- Nearest secondary
- 76.3 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Esperance
- Population
- 14,663 (2025) · +0.3% in a year
- Area / density
- 44,798 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 42 · $1,521/wk household income · $265/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $430k
- Federal grants
- $7.76M in 2025-26 · $529/resident
- Website
- esperance.wa.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
- O'Connor
- Federal MP
- Rick Wilson (LP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Coalition 63% 2PP
- State electorate
- Roe
- State MP
- Peter Rundle (NAT)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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); Bush Fire Prone Areas (OBRM-026), Office of Bushfire Risk Management WA (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.