Laura is in Northern Areas LGA, SA, postcode 5480, with population 765.
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Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
73% of homes here are owner-occupied and 22% rented, with 6% of landlords negatively geared.
73% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 19% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 48% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $892/mo, while renters pay about $867/mo — owning runs $25/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 30% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $667/wk income).
Getting to work: 67% drive, 2% public transport, 12% walk or cycle, 16% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 57% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Jamestown SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Laura (postcode 5480) is a small locality in South Australia within the Northern Areas local government area. The area has roughly 765 residents and a settled, mature resident base, with a median age of 48. Households earn a median income of $54K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.2% 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 managers, professionals, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $892.
Laura is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 993, which is around the national average of 1,000. Healthcare facilities include 1 public hospital. The crime rate in the Northern Areas LGA is low at 784 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +0.2% 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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Laura is in the Northern Areas Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5480. Council-level context for Northern Areas LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Laura is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Laura 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.