Suburb profile
Willson River SA 5222
Willson River is located in the South East South Australia region of South Australia, postcode 5222. It has 12 properties across 4 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Willson River, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Willson River
Willson River, SA 5222, sits in the South East South Australia region and neighbours Dudley West, Porky Flat and Dudley East. Its 4 streets hold 12 properties, all 12 of them houses.
The census figures are for Kangaroo Island, which covers the whole of Willson River. At the 2021 Census the area had 4,894 residents, a median age of 50 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,128 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,023 a month and the median rent $208 a week. Of 1,940 dwellings, 1,840 were separate houses, 49 semi-detached, 24 flats and 13 other. Tenure split into 844 owned outright, 536 owned with a mortgage and 430 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Willson River
- 4,894Peoplelive in the area
- 50Median ageyears
- $1,128Median household incomea week
- $208Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses1,840
- Townhouses and semis49
- Flats and apartments24
- Other13
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,023a month
- Household size2.2people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Willson River
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.