Stockwell, South Australia

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Stockwell
South Australia
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Stockwell
Coordinates 34°26′02″S139°03′14″E / 34.4340°S 139.0538°E / -34.4340; 139.0538 Coordinates: 34°26′02″S139°03′14″E / 34.4340°S 139.0538°E / -34.4340; 139.0538
LGA(s)
State electorate(s) Schubert
Federal Division(s) Barker [1]
Localities around Stockwell:
Ebenezer Truro
Stockwell
Light Pass, Nuriootpa Penrice, Angaston Moculta

Stockwell is a settlement in South Australia. [2] At the 2006 census, Stockwell had a population of 534. [3] Stockwell is named after Samuel Stockwell, an early landowner in the area. [1] Stockwell was a station on the Truro railway line from 1917 to 1968 when the line closed to regular service.

South Australia State of Australia

South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of less than 30,000.

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