Suburb profile

Balgowan SA 5573

Balgowan is located in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia, postcode 5573. It has 314 properties across 23 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Balgowan, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Balgowan

Balgowan, SA 5573, sits in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region and neighbours Chinaman Wells, Maitland, Point Pearce and South Kilkerran. Its 23 streets hold 314 properties, 312 of them houses and 2 units.

Census figures are for Yorke Peninsula - North, which had 7,458 residents, a median age of 57 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $1,003 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,000 a month and the median rent $200 a week. Of 3,147 dwellings, 2,928 were separate houses, 101 semi-detached and 21 flats; 93 were other dwellings. Tenure was 1,713 owned outright, 676 owned with a mortgage and 560 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Balgowan

  • 7,458Peoplelive in the area
  • 57Median ageyears
  • $1,003Median household incomea week
  • $200Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,928
  • Townhouses and semis101
  • Flats and apartments21
  • Other93

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,000a month
  • Household size2.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,713Owned with a mortgage 676Rented 560Other 198

Streets in Balgowan

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.