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Tumby Bay Real Estate

Tumby Bay real estate

When the 2021 Census was taken, 19% of private dwellings in Tumby Bay were unoccupied, compared with 11% across South Australia. The sections below describe its homes, what its households pay and earn, and the people counted there.

  • House 84
  • Townhouse or terrace 7
  • Flat or apartment 6
  • Other or not stated 3
  • Owned outright 51
  • Mortgaged 22
  • Rented 22
  • Other or not stated 5
Homes in Tumby Bay as a street of 100, from the census count of households by kind of home and tenure.
Median rent$220 a weekSA $300
Median mortgage repayment$1,200 a monthSA $1,500
Median household income$1,058 a weekSA $1,455

Empty dwellings and separate houses in Tumby Bay

That 19% of unoccupied private dwellings in Tumby Bay sits above South Australia's 11%. Of the homes that were occupied, separate houses make up 84%, above 78% across the state, while townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses come to 7%, below 15%, and flats or apartments to 6%, below 7%. The shares suggest attached homes and apartment buildings play a smaller part here than statewide.

26% of homes in Tumby Bay have two bedrooms or fewer, above South Australia's 22%. Homes with three bedrooms come to 50%, below the state's 51%, and homes with four or more bedrooms to 21%, below 26%. Set beside South Australia, then, Tumby Bay has a larger share of homes with two bedrooms or fewer, and a smaller share with three or with four or more.

South Australia, the same way: 78 houses, 7 flats, 28 rented. Other or not stated also takes up the rounding.

Ownership, mortgages and rent

51% of households in Tumby Bay own their home outright, above 33% across South Australia, and 22% are paying off a mortgage, below 36%. The median mortgage repayment is $1,200 a month, below the state's $1,500. Median household income is $1,058 a week, below $1,455 for South Australia.

Another 22% of households rent, below 28% across the state, at a median rent of $220 a week, below $300. 34% of these renting households rent from a landlord the ABS records as a real estate agent, below 51% for South Australia; the remainder rent from state housing, community housing, a private person or another landlord. Worked out here from the median rent and the median income of all households, renters or not, the rent comes to 21% of income, the same as the state's 21%, and it says nothing about any one renter's costs.

An older population

The median age in Tumby Bay was 57 years at the 2021 Census, above 41 across South Australia, which suggests an older population than the state's. 1,781 people lived in the suburb of Tumby Bay, and an average household held 2 people, below 2.4 for South Australia, suggesting households with fewer people in them than across the state.

On the five-year question, which asked in 2021 where each person aged five and over had lived in 2016, 62% of people in Tumby Bay gave the same address. That is above 58% across South Australia.