Cummins suburb profile
Cummins is a rural service town on the lower Eyre Peninsula that acts as a local hub for broadacre cropping and sheep grazing, with grain silos and farm machinery a familiar part of the skyline. The town has a compact main street of shops and services, a showground and active sporting clubs that shape much of the social life, and basic education and health services for surrounding farms. Housing ranges from weatherboard and brick cottages to farmhouses and newer suburban lots, and the lifestyle is relaxed and community-minded with the peninsula's beaches and national parks within easy reach by road.
Cummins property market performance
Like many smaller suburbs, Cummins sees relatively few recent property sales, so there isn't enough recent data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units. Over the last three months four houses were sold, and the median time to sell a house was 137 days over the past 12 months. Unit sales data is insufficient to report a median price or days on market.
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Median price Past 3 months | N/A | N/A |
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Sold Past 3 months | 4 | N/A |
Median days on market Past 12 months | 137 | N/A |
Average rent Past 12 months | N/A | N/A |
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Cummins demographics
Cummins is a community of 981 people with a median age of 42. The typical household earns $1,526 a week, roughly $79,352 a year.
Families dominate the mix: couple families without children are the largest group at 46.4%, while couple families with children make up 42.7%, together accounting for about 89.1% of reported families. One-parent families represent 9.7% and other families 1.1%.
In Cummins, owner-occupiers are the majority, making up about three quarters of homes (76.0% combined): 46.9% are owned outright and 29.1% are owned with a mortgage. Renters account for 24.0% of dwellings.
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