Price is a locality and township on Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. It is within the Yorke Peninsula Council local government area and is 131 kilometres (81 mi) north west of the centre of state capital, Adelaide.
At the 2006 census, Price and the surrounding district had a population of 256.
History and Development
The township, which was proclaimed on 3 August 1882, is near the northern boundary of the Hundred of Cunningham.
It was named by Sir William Jervois, Governor of South Australia 1877-83, after his daughter in law, Florence Annie Price, who married John Jervois, his eldest son. She was a daughter of Henry Strong Price, a pioneer pastoralist of the Flinders Ranges.
The principal local industries are grain farming and salt production. In the case of the latter, sea salt is harvested from coastal salt pans.
Tourism facilities are limited to the Wheatsheaf Hotel, established 1886, and a caravan park.