Suburb profile

Island Beach SA 5222

Island Beach is located in the South East South Australia region of South Australia, postcode 5222. It has 299 properties across 21 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Island Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Island Beach

Island Beach, SA 5222, sits in the South East South Australia region and neighbours Dudley West, Pelican Lagoon, Sapphiretown and Brown Beach. Its 21 streets hold 299 properties, all 299 of them houses.

Census figures are for Kangaroo Island, not the suburb alone. At the census Kangaroo Island had 4,894 residents, a median age of 50 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,128 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,023 a month and the median rent $208 a week. Of 1,940 dwellings, 1,840 were separate houses, 49 semi-detached, 24 flats and 13 other; 844 were owned outright, 536 owned with a mortgage and 430 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Island Beach

  • 4,894Peoplelive in the area
  • 50Median ageyears
  • $1,128Median household incomea week
  • $208Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,840
  • Townhouses and semis49
  • Flats and apartments24
  • Other13

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,023a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 844Owned with a mortgage 536Rented 430Other 130

Streets in Island Beach

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.