Suburb profile
Dismal Swamp SA 5291
Dismal Swamp is located in the South East South Australia region of South Australia, postcode 5291. It has 27 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Dismal Swamp, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Dismal Swamp
Dismal Swamp, SA 5291, sits in the South East South Australia region and neighbours Mingbool, Tarpeena, Wandilo and Glencoe. Its 7 streets hold 27 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the Grant area, which covers most of the suburb. Grant had 6,138 residents, a median age of 45 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,582 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $200 a week. Of 1,933 dwellings, 1,845 were separate houses, 20 semi-detached, 3 flats and 49 other. Tenure split into 824 owned outright, 775 owned with a mortgage and 233 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Dismal Swamp
- 6,138Peoplelive in the area
- 45Median ageyears
- $1,582Median household incomea week
- $200Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,845
- Townhouses and semis20
- Flats and apartments3
- Other49
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
- Household size2.5people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Dismal Swamp
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.