Marree is in Unincorporated SA LGA, SA, postcode 5733, with population 65.
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.
23% of homes here are owner-occupied and 36% rented, with 2% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 23% owner-occupier / 36% renter mix.
Social housing is 29% 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 64% of AU suburbs
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Outback SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Marree is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Unincorporated SA local government area (postcode 5733). With a population of 65, the suburb has a settled, mature resident base with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $25K per year, with an average household size of 1.5 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement softening across the broader catchment, with population growth running at -1.0% 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 managers, professionals, clerical & administrative. Employment in the area leans toward accommodation & food and education. The top ancestries reported are English, Aboriginal Australian, Australian.
The median weekly rent is $80 (Census 2021).
Marree is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 781, which is well below the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Unincorporated SA LGA is moderate at 6,154 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, Population growth of -1.0% year-on-year points to declining demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Marree depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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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 Marree 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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Marree is in the Unincorporated SA Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5733. Council-level context for Unincorporated SA LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Marree is $80/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Marree show: Declining, 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.