Sandy Creek suburb profile
Sandy Creek is a quiet rural locality in South Australia’s Barossa region, with a landscape of gently rolling vineyards, paddocks and creeklines that give it a distinctly country feel. The suburb is made up largely of farmhouses and rural-residential properties on larger blocks, attracting families, hobby farmers and people seeking space and privacy rather than suburban living. Everyday shopping and services are found in the nearby Barossa towns, while local roads provide straightforward links to regional centres. Life in Sandy Creek centres on outdoor pursuits, small-scale agriculture and the relaxed pace of living among vines and gum trees.
Sandy Creek property market performance
Like many smaller suburbs, Sandy Creek sees relatively few property sales, so there isn't enough recent data to publish a reliable median price for houses or units. Over the last three months only one house sale was recorded, and recent unit sales are too few to report a reliable figure.
Other commonly used measures for Sandy Creek are also not published for the same reason: changes over the last 12 months, median days on market and average rents do not have sufficient recent data to produce reliable estimates.
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Sandy Creek demographics
Sandy Creek is a small community of 360 people with a median age of 39 and a typical household income of $2,322 a week, roughly $120,700 a year.
Families make up the bulk of households. Couple families with children are the largest group at 51.3%, and together with couple families without children (41.7%) they account for about 93.0% of reported families; one-parent families are 4.3% and other families 2.6%. In numbers, that includes 59 couple families with children and 48 couple families without children.
Homes in Sandy Creek are overwhelmingly owner-occupied: 33.6% are owned outright and 59.5% are owned with a mortgage, a combined 93.1%, while renters make up 6.9%.
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