Mount Charles, SA
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Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs
Mount Charles is more socio-economically advantaged than about 83% of the 14,462 Australian suburbs we score, based on the ABS SEIFA index (raw score 1050, where about 1000 is the national average).
A socio-economic measure from ABS Census data — not a measure of how good a suburb is to live in or visit. How we calculate this.
Is Mount Charles a good place to live?
There’s no single answer — it depends on what matters to you. So instead of one mystery number, we break it down: a transparent score on each part of life we can back with public data, and an honest “not yet” on the parts we can’t.
Very strong on the data we score
A weighted blend of the 1 component we can score for Mount Charles from public data. It sits alongside — and reconciles with — the socio-economic Suburb Score above; it is a transparent read, not a complete verdict.
Socio-economic advantage
83/100Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs
Among Australia's more advantaged suburbs — the same ABS SEIFA-based Suburb Score (83/100) shown above. Income, education and occupation, as published by the ABS. · ABS SEIFA 2021
Not yet scored
We’d rather leave these open than publish a number we can’t stand behind. Here’s where each one stands.
- Housing affordabilityNot scored — no ABS Census median-rent figure for this suburb.
- Amenities & accessNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap amenity mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- Green spaceNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap green-space mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- TransportNot scored yet — our OpenStreetMap public-transport mapping is still rolling out across suburbs.
- SchoolsNot scored yet — school performance (ACARA / ICSEA) needs a data-reuse licence cleared before we can publish it.
- SafetyNot scored yet — Australia has no single open crime dataset and safety data carries defamation and legal care, so it is gated pending a go/no-go and will be data-only when added.
- CommunityNot scored yet — we won't reduce community to a number from a proxy. We'd rather leave it open than publish an invented value judgement.
A transparent read on public data, not a verdict — and not a measure of any person or community. See our methodology for how each component is worked out and why some aren’t scored yet.
Mount Charles at a glance
- Population (2021)
- 58
- Median age
- 44
- Median weekly household income
- $1,812
- SEIFA score
- 1050
- Local government area
- Tatiara
- Coordinates
- -36.0836, 140.1499
Map of Mount Charles
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Housing & property in Mount Charles
What it costs to live in Mount Charles and how residents hold their homes, from the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census.
- Median mortgage
- $485
- per month
- Owner-occupied
- 72%
- of dwellings
- Rented
- 0%
- of dwellings
The full tenure and dwelling-type breakdown is in the Mount Charles demographics section below.
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021. © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. See our methodology.
Mount Charles demographics (2021 Census)
The figures below profile Mount Charles using the Australian Bureau of Statistics 2021 Census; every percentage is a share of a clearly stated Census count, so each one traces back to the source. At a glance, the largest age group is young adults (25–44) at 36% and 13% of residents were born overseas.
Age profile
| Age group | People | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Children (0–14) | 11 | 24% |
| Youth (15–24) | 0 | 0% |
| Young adults (25–44) | 16 | 36% |
| Mid-life (45–64) | 7 | 16% |
| Seniors (65+) | 11 | 24% |
Share of the 45 people counted by age.
Housing and households
| Tenure | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Owned outright | 6 | 43% |
| Owned with a mortgage | 4 | 29% |
| Rented | 0 | 0% |
| Dwelling type | Dwellings | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Houses | 13 | 100% |
| Townhouses & semis | 0 | 0% |
| Flats & apartments | 0 | 0% |
Tenure and dwelling shares are of the roughly 13 occupied private dwellings in Mount Charles.
- Average household size
- 2.6 people
- Median weekly family income
- $1,833
- Median weekly personal income
- $784
Community and culture
- Born overseas
- 6 (13%)
- Speaks a language other than English at home
- 0 (0%)
- Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander
- 0 (0%)
Work and education
- Completed Year 12
- 11 (26%)
- Labour-force participation
- 75%
- Employed full-time
- 21
- Employed part-time
- 8
Source: ABS Census of Population and Housing, 2021 (General Community Profile, by Suburb and Locality). © Australian Bureau of Statistics, released under CC BY 4.0. How we group bands and derive each share is set out on our methodology page.
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Common questions about Mount Charles
Is Mount Charles a good place to live?
There's no single answer, so we score what the public data can back. On socio-economic advantage, Mount Charles rates 83/100 overall (Very strong on the data we score). Public transport, schools and safety aren't scored yet — see our methodology for why.
Where is Mount Charles?
Mount Charles is a suburb of South Australia, Australia, in the Tatiara local government area.
What is the population of Mount Charles?
At the 2021 Census, Mount Charles had a population of about 58.
Is Mount Charles an advantaged area?
Mount Charles has an ABS SEIFA score of 1050, where about 1000 is the national average — higher scores indicate greater relative socio-economic advantage. That gives it a Suburb Score of 83 out of 100 — more socio-economically advantaged than about 83% of Australian suburbs.
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