Pukatja is in Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara LGA, SA, postcode 0872, with population 519.
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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.
4% of homes here are owner-occupied and 82% rented.
82% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 69% 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 7% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 95% of AU suburbs
At the median asking rent, about 0% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $300/wk income).
Getting to work: 53% drive, 0% public transport, 38% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the APY Lands SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in South Australia within the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara local government area, Pukatja is a small community (postcode 0872). With a population of 519, the suburb has a younger, working-age population with a median age of 27. Households earn a median income of $64K per year, with an average household size of 4.4 people. 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 community & personal service, professionals, managers. Employment in the area leans toward education and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, Australian, English.
The median weekly rent is $90 (Census 2021).
The crime rate in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara LGA is higher than average at 24,663 incidents per 100,000 population.
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Official quarterly house sales workbooks; units remain on ABS fallback coverage
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Pukatja is in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara Local Government Area, SA, postcode 0872. Council-level context for Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yunkunytjatjara LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Pukatja is $90/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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.