Duck Ponds is in Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA, SA, postcode 5607, with population 284.
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Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
84% of homes here are owner-occupied and 32% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
84% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
Social housing is 13% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 16% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 68% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,885/mo, while renters pay about $867/mo — owning runs $1,018/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 20% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $667/wk income).
Getting to work: 64% drive, 0% public transport, 28% walk or cycle, 13% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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Duck Ponds (postcode 5607) is a small, quiet locality in South Australia within the Lower Eyre Peninsula local government area. It is home to about 284 residents, with a settled, mature resident base and a median age of 46. Households earn a median income of $67K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 people. SA employment has moved +1.6% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 21 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 7 underway, and 7 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are community & personal service, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and transport & logistics. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,885.
The crime rate in the Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA is moderate at 5,282 incidents per 100,000 population.
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Official quarterly house sales workbooks; units remain on ABS fallback coverage
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This page stays indexable because Duck Ponds is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
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The lighter areas here are school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, population trend data, and building approvals, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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Duck Ponds is in the Lower Eyre Peninsula Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5607. Council-level context for Lower Eyre Peninsula LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Duck Ponds is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.