Inkerman is in Wakefield LGA, SA, postcode 5550, with population 23.
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 2% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 100% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $997/mo, while renters pay about $217/mo — owning runs $780/mo higher on these medians.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Wakefield - Barunga West SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Inkerman is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Wakefield local government area (postcode 5550). With a population of 23, the suburb has an established family demographic with a median age of 39. Households earn a median income of $137K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.0% 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. The most common occupations are labourers, managers, machinery operators & drivers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $50 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $997.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +0.0% 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
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Inkerman 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.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
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If Inkerman feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop same · rent +$50/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent +$50/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Inkerman is in the Wakefield Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5550. Council-level context for Wakefield LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Inkerman is $50/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Inkerman 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.