Mallala is in Adelaide Plains LGA, SA, postcode 5502, with population 1,042.
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Population movement supports a growth-led read.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
74% of homes here are owner-occupied and 23% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
74% 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 33% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 4% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $1,192/mo, while renters pay about $2,167/mo — renting runs $975/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 55% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $1,667/wk income).
Getting to work: 75% drive, 12% public transport, 4% walk or cycle, 4% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 72% 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 Mallala SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Mallala is a close-knit residential community in South Australia within the Adelaide Plains local government area (postcode 5502). The area has roughly 1,042 residents and a mix of families and early-career residents, with a median age of 37. Households earn a median income of $80K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +3.8% 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. The most common occupations are labourers, managers, machinery operators & drivers. Employment in the area leans toward admin services and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Scottish.
The current median weekly rent is $500. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,192.
Mallala is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 982, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Adelaide Plains LGA is below average at 2,783 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +3.8% year-on-year points to strong growth 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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Mallala is in the Adelaide Plains Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5502. Council-level context for Adelaide Plains LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Mallala is $500/wk, based on the current market rent dataset. The current rent signal is income-stretched rent market.
Income-stretched rent market: Weekly rent screens at about 58% of annual income. Use this as a suburb screening signal before comparing candidates or modelling a purchase; the matching rent ranking can provide broader market context.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Mallala show: Strong Growth, 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.