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SA 5605 · Lower Eyre Peninsula
What homes cost, how rents have moved, and a feel for the people who call it home.
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ABS 2021
Tumby Bay, South Australia
Median sale price and rental income of properties in Tumby Bay SA
Based on 34 sales in the preceding 12 months
$560,000
Up 16.1% over 12 months
Based on 22 rental listings in the preceding 12 months
$475 per week
No change over 12 months
Market data updated September 2026.
The median house price in Tumby Bay, SA is currently $560,000, based on the latest 12 months of sales. Tumby Bay has a 12-month growth rate of 16.1% for houses and 23.6% for units.
Two-bedroom houses have a median sale price of $425,000, Three-bedroom houses have a median sale price of $565,000, Four-bedroom houses have a median sale price of $710,000 in Tumby Bay.
If you're looking to lease, the median rent for houses in Tumby Bay is $475 per week. The median house rent has remained unchanged over the last 12 months.
The median price of apartments and units for sale in Tumby Bay is $408,000, which has increased 23.6% since the same time last year. Three-bedroom apartments and units have a median sale price of $420,000 in Tumby Bay. The median rent for units and apartments in Tumby Bay is $412 per week and has increased 37.3% over the last 12 months.
Crime and safety
The overall rate for Tumby Bay is 1,298 offences per 100,000 residents — 58% below the Rest of SA benchmark.
That is the clearest suburb-wide answer. Open the detailed profile to see how the pattern changes across offence types and different parts of Tumby Bay.
Overall crime rate
1,298
offences per 100,000 residents
58% belowRest of SA
Suburb-wide estimate from Microburbs' public crime model; it is not an address-level measure.
The people behind the postcode
Tumby Bay SA 5605 is in South Australia, within Rest of SA.
1,781 people call Tumby Bay home, with an average of 2 people per household and a median household income of $1,058 a week.
Public ABS 2021 Census figures. The bars compare the local share with the capital-region benchmark.
Share of residents in each age band.
Share of occupied private dwellings.
Share of homes with a stated ownership or rental status.
Vehicles available to occupied households.
Selected ways residents worked or travelled on Census day.
8.8% of workers in Tumby Bay worked from home on Census day.
3.0% of Tumby Bay residents were born in England.
46.2% of people in Tumby Bay described themselves as having no religion in the 2021 Census.
A closer look at the Census
Open any question for a plain-English reading of the public 2021 Census for Tumby Bay SA 5605.
14.3% of Tumby Bay's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is close to the Rest of SA average.
492 family households lived in Tumby Bay; 26.2% were couple families and 10.6% were one-parent families.
23.8% of local families included children under 15. That is well below the Rest of SA average.
These are suburb-wide household figures, not school or childcare ratings.
Tumby Bay had 1,781 residents at the 2021 Census.
15.8% of residents were aged 25 to 44.
53.1% were 55 or older. That is well above the Rest of SA average.
Age shares use the suburb’s total Census population.
Separate houses made up 84.4% of occupied private dwellings in Tumby Bay.
Townhouses and other attached homes represented 7.2% of occupied private dwellings.
Flats and apartments accounted for 6.1% of occupied private dwellings.
All three shares use occupied private dwellings as the denominator.
53.4% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is well above the Rest of SA average.
23.4% were buying their home with a mortgage.
23.2% rented their home. That is somewhat below the Rest of SA average.
Tenure shares include households that stated one of these three arrangements.
The average household in Tumby Bay had 2.0 people.
One-person households made up 37.2% of occupied homes. That is somewhat above the Rest of SA average.
Two-person households represented 43.1%, while 12.2% had four or more usual residents.
Household size counts usual residents in occupied homes.
8.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.
66.1% drove a car as their only travel method. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.
0.6% used only a train, tram or bus, while 5.4% walked or cycled.
Travel figures are a 2021 Census-day snapshot.
5.8% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.
One-car households formed 37.3% of the total.
58.4% of households had two or more vehicles.
Vehicle counts refer to occupied households, not individual residents.
66.9% were at the same address five years earlier, while 33.1% reported a different address.
6.2% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Rest of SA rate.
Mobility figures cover residents who answered the relevant Census question.
93.4% of residents used only English at home.
1.1% used a language other than English at home.
0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.
Home language is separate from English proficiency.
6.2% of Tumby Bay's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 93.8% was born in Australia.
0.0% of residents were born in China.
0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.4%.
Birthplace, citizenship and ancestry describe different parts of identity.
English ancestry accounted for 45.7% of ancestry responses in Tumby Bay.
Australian ancestry made up 44.1% of responses.
Chinese ancestry represented 0.2% of responses.
People may nominate more than one ancestry, so these are shares of responses.
12.7% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is almost exactly typical for Rest of SA.
Managers accounted for 21.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 9.9%.
Health care and social assistance employed 14.3% of workers, and education and training employed 9.3%.
Occupation and industry figures describe employed residents of the suburb.
The labour-force participation rate was 47.5%, compared with 54.1% across Rest of SA.
23.2% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 19.9% worked part time.
Unemployment was 2.8%, compared with 4.8% across Rest of SA.
Labour-force figures come from the 2021 Census.
51.2% reported no selected long-term health condition.
10.2% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.
8.8% reported asthma, 13.0% arthritis and 8.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.
These are self-reported suburb-wide Census figures, not address-level health risks.
16.9% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of SA average.
Postgraduate degrees accounted for 2.2% of qualification responses.
Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.5%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 45.4%.
Qualification categories are reported separately and are not school ratings.
Median household income was $1,058 per week in the 2021 Census.
The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $1,200.
Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $220 per week.
These household figures are from 2021; current sale and asking-rent medians appear in the market section.
Working from home was 8.8% in Tumby Bay, compared with 8.9% across Rest of SA.
Outright ownership was 53.4% locally and 41.6% across Rest of SA. That is well above the Rest of SA average.
Renting accounted for 23.2% in Tumby Bay, against 26.0% across Rest of SA.
Capital-region comparisons use the same Census definitions and year.
Three useful questions
The median house price is $560,000, while units and apartments sit at $408,000. Bedroom count, land and condition still create a wide range around those suburb medians.
The Census counted 492 local families, and 14.3% of residents were under 15. That describes the community; school quality, travel times and the right fit for a particular family need separate research.
4-bedroom houses have a median around $710,000, the closest bedroom benchmark we hold to a $1.5m budget. Individual homes can differ substantially with block size, renovation and location.
Medians describe recorded market activity across the suburb; they are historical context, not a valuation or forecast for an individual home.
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