Suburb profile

Whyalla Jenkins SA 5609

Whyalla Jenkins is located in the Outback South Australia region of South Australia, postcode 5609. It has 1,022 properties across 40 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Whyalla Jenkins, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Whyalla Jenkins

Whyalla Jenkins, SA 5609, sits in Outback South Australia and neighbours Middleback Range and Whyalla Stuart. Its 40 streets hold 1,022 properties, 957 of them houses and 65 units.

Census figures are for the wider Whyalla area. At the 2021 Census Whyalla had 21,154 residents, a median age of 41 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,188 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,083 a month and the median rent $180 a week. Of 8,952 dwellings, 4,998 were separate houses, 3,497 semi-detached and 408 flats, with 28 other; 2,381 were owned outright, 2,771 owned with a mortgage and 3,548 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Whyalla Jenkins

  • 21,154Peoplelive in the area
  • 41Median ageyears
  • $1,188Median household incomea week
  • $180Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses4,998
  • Townhouses and semis3,497
  • Flats and apartments408
  • Other28

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,083a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,381Owned with a mortgage 2,771Rented 3,548Other 252

Streets in Whyalla Jenkins

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.