Oodnadatta is in Unincorporated SA LGA, SA, postcode 5734, with population 102.
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.
0% of homes here are owner-occupied and 100% rented, with 2% of landlords negatively geared.
100% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 87% 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 11% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 86% of AU suburbs
Getting to work: 40% drive, 0% public transport, 37% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Outback SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Oodnadatta is a small, quiet locality in South Australia within the Unincorporated SA local government area (postcode 5734). The area has roughly 102 residents and an established family demographic, with a median age of 38. Households earn a median income of $35K per year, with an average household size of 2.5 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 labourers, community & personal service, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward education and public admin & safety. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $73 (Census 2021).
Oodnadatta is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The crime rate in the Unincorporated SA LGA is moderate at 7,843 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, 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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Oodnadatta 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 Oodnadatta 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 hospital coverage and transport stops, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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pop same · rent +$11/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop same · rent +$27/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Oodnadatta is in the Unincorporated SA Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5734. 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 Oodnadatta is $73/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Oodnadatta 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.