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Pekina is in Orroroo Carrieton LGA, SA, postcode 5431, with population 70.
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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.
The local employment base leans toward agriculture and education. Local earnings momentum is not available from the linked ATO series. SA employment is up +2.1% year-on-year (+21K jobs) and +13.5% over five years in the official NERO dataset. Read this as a broader state jobs backdrop combined with local employment mix, not a suburb-only new-jobs count.
SA has 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2024-10-02. There is no matched local transport-stop count here, so read the infrastructure backdrop as broader state delivery context only. Read this as a broader government-delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-only catalyst count.
Pekina is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Orroroo Carrieton local government area (postcode 5431). With a population of 70, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. SA employment has moved +2.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, community & personal service, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
This suburb mixes release datasets, Census data, and matched local services. Use the data status block before treating every metric as equally fresh.
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Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
Use current rent as a starting signal, not as a fixed underwriting truth.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
The page has limited direct evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Schools, and Hospitals, so use nearby alternatives or compare before relying on it.
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Market rent, Crime
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Property prices, Schools, Hospitals, Transport
Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Higher SEIFA context supports a stronger local-quality read.
The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Property prices, Schools, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Pekina 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, population trend data, and building approvals. 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.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
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The detailed view stays here for deeper inspection. If you want the complete charts, profile tables, data-status panel, and related suburb browsing, this is still the advanced mode.
Pekina is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Orroroo Carrieton local government area (postcode 5431). With a population of 70, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. SA employment has moved +2.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, community & personal service, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $450. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,272.
The crime rate in the Orroroo Carrieton LGA is below average at 2,857 incidents per 100,000 population.
Pekina is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Orroroo Carrieton local government area (postcode 5431). With a population of 70, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 47. Households earn a median income of $58K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. SA employment has moved +2.1% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. SA also had 23 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 2 underway, and 11 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are managers, community & personal service, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and education. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Irish.
The current median weekly rent is $450. The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,272.
The crime rate in the Orroroo Carrieton LGA is below average at 2,857 incidents per 100,000 population.