Wild Horse Plains (postcode 5501) is a small, quiet locality in South Australia within the Adelaide Plains local government area. The area has roughly 96 residents and a settled mid-life population, with a median age of 41. Households earn a median income of $62K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 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 labourers, machinery operators & drivers, managers. Employment in the area leans toward agriculture and construction. The top ancestries reported are English, Australian, German.
The median weekly rent is $100 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $823.
The crime rate in the Adelaide Plains LGA is low at 1,042 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, 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.