Suburb profile

Pinkerton Plains SA 5400

Pinkerton Plains is located in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia, postcode 5400. It has 50 properties across 16 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Pinkerton Plains, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Pinkerton Plains

Pinkerton Plains, SA 5400, sits in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region and neighbours Barabba, Hamley Bridge, Magdala and Mallala. Its 16 streets hold 50 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Light area, which covers 0.963 of the suburb. Light had 9,797 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.6 people. Median household income was $1,544 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,328 a month and the median rent $260 a week. Of 3,487 dwellings, 3,387 were separate houses, 72 semi-detached, 6 flats and 16 other; 1,241 were owned outright, 1,651 owned with a mortgage and 480 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Pinkerton Plains

  • 9,797Peoplelive in the area
  • 40Median ageyears
  • $1,544Median household incomea week
  • $260Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses3,387
  • Townhouses and semis72
  • Flats and apartments6
  • Other16

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,328a month
  • Household size2.6people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,241Owned with a mortgage 1,651Rented 480Other 115

Streets in Pinkerton Plains

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.