Penong is in Unincorporated SA LGA, SA, postcode 5690, with population 280.
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60% of homes here are owner-occupied and 35% rented, with 5% of landlords negatively geared.
A balanced 60% owner-occupier / 35% renter mix.
Social housing is 16% 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 5% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 98% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $835/mo, while renters pay about $256/mo — owning runs $579/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 5% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $197/wk income).
Getting to work: 54% drive, 10% public transport, 10% walk or cycle, 15% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the West Coast (SA) SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Penong (postcode 5690) is a small, quiet locality in South Australia within the Unincorporated SA local government area. With a population of 280, the suburb has a settled, mature resident base with a median age of 49. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 2.3 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, machinery operators & drivers, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and mining. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Aboriginal Australian.
The median weekly rent is $59 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $835.
Penong is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 870, which is well below the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Unincorporated SA LGA is below average at 2,500 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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Official quarterly house sales workbooks; units remain on ABS fallback coverage
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Penong is in the Unincorporated SA Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5690. 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 Penong is $59/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Penong 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.