Suburb profile

Port Gawler SA 5501

Port Gawler is located in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region of South Australia, postcode 5501. It has 38 properties across 7 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Port Gawler, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Port Gawler

Port Gawler, SA 5501, sits in the Barossa, Yorke and Mid North region and neighbours Buckland Park, Middle Beach, Two Wells and Riverlea Park. Its 7 streets hold 38 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Mallala area. It had 3,335 residents, a median age of 43 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,369 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,150 a month and the median rent $265 a week. Of 1,201 dwellings, 1,146 were separate houses, 11 semi-detached, 8 flats and 29 other. Of the same 1,201, 454 were owned outright, 507 owned with a mortgage and 177 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Port Gawler

  • 3,335Peoplelive in the area
  • 43Median ageyears
  • $1,369Median household incomea week
  • $265Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,146
  • Townhouses and semis11
  • Flats and apartments8
  • Other29

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,150a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 454Owned with a mortgage 507Rented 177Other 63

Streets in Port Gawler

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.