Gosse is in Kangaroo Island LGA, SA, postcode 5223, with population 25.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
This suburb 7% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 96% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $433/mo, while renters pay about $542/mo — renting runs $109/mo higher on these medians.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Kangaroo Island SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Gosse is a sparsely populated locality in South Australia within the Kangaroo Island local government area (postcode 5223). It is home to about 25 residents, with a mature demographic and a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $98K per year, with an average household size of 2.6 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.8% year-on-year at the LGA level. SA employment has moved +2.1% 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. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and arts & recreation. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Maori.
The median weekly rent is $125 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $433.
The crime rate in the Kangaroo Island LGA is moderate at 8,000 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +0.8% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Official quarterly house sales workbooks; units remain on ABS fallback coverage
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Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Gosse 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, and transport stops, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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pop same · rent -$25/wk
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pop same · rent +$85/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Gosse is in the Kangaroo Island Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5223. Council-level context for Kangaroo Island LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Gosse is $125/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Gosse show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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.