Suburb profile

Rapid Bay SA 5204

Rapid Bay is located in the South East South Australia region of South Australia, postcode 5204. It has 36 properties across 6 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Rapid Bay, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Rapid Bay

Rapid Bay, SA 5204, sits in the South East South Australia region and neighbours Cape Jervis, Delamere and Second Valley. Its 6 streets hold 36 properties, all of them houses.

Census figures are for the Yankalilla area, which had 6,498 residents, a median age of 56 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,082 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,300 a month and the median rent $270 a week. Of 2,704 dwellings, 2,528 were separate houses, 87 semi-detached, 51 flats and 40 other; 1,290 were owned outright, 867 owned with a mortgage and 415 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Rapid Bay

  • 6,498Peoplelive in the area
  • 56Median ageyears
  • $1,082Median household incomea week
  • $270Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,528
  • Townhouses and semis87
  • Flats and apartments51
  • Other40

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,300a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 1,290Owned with a mortgage 867Rented 415Other 132

Schools in Rapid Bay

  • Rapid Bay Primary School

    GovernmentPrimary

Streets in Rapid Bay

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.