Sandilands, South Australia facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Sandilands South Australia
Sandilands Location in Yorke Peninsula Council
Established	1999
Postcode(s)	5571
Time zone	ACST (UTC+9:30)
• Summer (DST)	ACST (UTC+10:30)
Location	88 km (55 mi) NW of Adelaide 18 km (11 mi) SE of Maitland
LGA(s)	Yorke Peninsula Council
Region	Yorke and Mid North
County	Fergusson
State electorate(s)	Narungga
Federal Division(s)	Grey
Mean max temp Mean min temp Annual rainfall 22.6 °C 73 °F 10.7 °C 51 °F 332.0 mm 13.1 in
Suburbs around Sandilands: Yorke Valley Yorke Valley Cunningham Ardrossan James Well Rogues Point Urania Wauraltee Sandilands Gulf St Vincent Pine Point Wauraltee Curramulka Pine Point
Footnotes	Adjoining localities

Sandilands is a locality in the Australian state of  South Australia located on the east coast of Yorke Peninsula immediately adjoining Gulf St Vincent about 88 kilometres (55 mi) north-west of the state capital of Adelaide and about 18 kilometres (11 mi) south-east of the municipal seat in Maitland.

Its boundaries which were created in May 1999 for the “long established name.” The locality's name is derived from Robert Hamilton Sandilands (1841-1923) who lived there during the 1880s.

As of 2014, the majority land use within the locality is “primary production.”

Sandilands is located within the federal division of Grey, the state electoral district of Narungga and the local government area of the Yorke Peninsula Council.