Terowie is in Goyder LGA, SA, postcode 5421, with population 135.
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.
82% of homes here are owner-occupied and 11% rented, with 0% of landlords negatively geared.
82% owner-occupied — owner-occupiers hold longer and absorb rate shocks, supporting price stability.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 23% · SA median 18%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 26% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $298/mo, while renters pay about $585/mo — renting runs $287/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 36% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $450/wk income).
Getting to work: 78% drive, 0% public transport, 0% walk or cycle, 9% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Goyder SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Terowie is a quiet locality in South Australia within the Goyder local government area (postcode 5421). It is home to about 135 residents, with a predominantly older resident base and a median age of 56. Households earn a median income of $31K per year, with an average household size of 1.8 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at -0.1% 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, technicians & trades, managers. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, Irish.
The median weekly rent is $135 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $298.
The crime rate in the Goyder LGA is moderate at 6,667 incidents per 100,000 population.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of -0.1% year-on-year points to declining demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Terowie leans 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 Terowie 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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Terowie is in the Goyder Local Government Area, SA, postcode 5421. Council-level context for Goyder LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Terowie is $135/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Terowie 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.