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Wasleys is in Light LGA, SA, postcode 5400, with population 885.
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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 healthcare and manufacturing. 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.
Wasleys is a small community in South Australia within the Light local government area (postcode 5400). With a population of 885, the suburb has a young professional demographic with a median age of 30. Households earn a median income of $88K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 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 technicians & trades, clerical & administrative, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
This suburb mixes release datasets, Census data, and matched local services. Use the data status block before treating every metric as equally fresh.
QuickProperty mixes release files, Census baselines, and matched local services on this page. Read the status panel before treating every metric as equally fresh.
Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
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.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Hospitals, and Transport.
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Crime, Schools
Market rent
Property prices, Hospitals, Transport, Population growth
The profile is based on limited but still useful local context. 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.
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No strong positive decision reason is visible yet.
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.
Property prices, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Wasleys 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.
Treat this as a directional locality brief first, then verify the suburb story against stronger nearby markets or the state hub.
The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, transport stops, population trend data, and building approvals. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
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.
If Wasleys feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop +100 · rent +$70/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop +200 · rent +$70/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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.
Wasleys is a small community in South Australia within the Light local government area (postcode 5400). With a population of 885, the suburb has a young professional demographic with a median age of 30. Households earn a median income of $88K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 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 technicians & trades, clerical & administrative, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The median weekly rent is $280 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,451.
Wasleys is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1022, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Light LGA is low at 1,017 incidents per 100,000 population.
Wasleys is a small community in South Australia within the Light local government area (postcode 5400). With a population of 885, the suburb has a young professional demographic with a median age of 30. Households earn a median income of $88K per year, with an average household size of 2.7 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 technicians & trades, clerical & administrative, community & personal service. Employment in the area leans toward healthcare and manufacturing. The top ancestries reported are Australian, English, German.
The median weekly rent is $280 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,451.
Wasleys is served by 1 school, including 1 primary. The average ICSEA score is 1022, which is around the national average of 1,000. The crime rate in the Light LGA is low at 1,017 incidents per 100,000 population.