Port Gawler is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Adelaide Plains local government area (postcode 5501). The area has roughly 112 residents and a mix of families and early-career residents, with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $109K per year, with an average household size of 3.4 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 managers, labourers, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, Italian.
The median weekly rent is $235 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,672.
The crime rate in the Adelaide Plains LGA is moderate at 5,357 incidents per 100,000 population.
On the investment side, 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.