Suburb profile

Melrose SA 5483

Melrose is located in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia, postcode 5483. It has 308 properties across 47 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Melrose, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Melrose

Melrose, SA 5483, sits in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region and neighbours Bangor, Booleroo Centre, Murray Town and Willowie. Its 47 streets hold 308 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Peterborough - Mount Remarkable area, which had 5,341 residents, a median age of 55 and an average household of 2.1 people. Median household income was $931 a week, the median mortgage repayment $758 a month and the median rent $165 a week. Of 2,212 dwellings, 2,130 were separate houses, 26 semi-detached, 8 flats and 30 other; 1,219 were owned outright, 546 owned with a mortgage and 328 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Melrose

  • 5,341Peoplelive in the area
  • 55Median ageyears
  • $931Median household incomea week
  • $165Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,130
  • Townhouses and semis26
  • Flats and apartments8
  • Other30

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$758a month
  • Household size2.1people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,219Owned with a mortgage 546Rented 328Other 119

Schools in Melrose

  • Melrose Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Melrose

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.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

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