McLaren Flat is on the sprawling flat land to the east of the town of McLaren Vale on the road to Kangarilla.

At the 2016 census, the locality had a population of 1,537 of which 1,121 lived in its town centre.

It shares the same post code as McLaren Vale (5171) but has a different telephone exchange (8383...).

[6] It is also on the boundary of the federal electorates of Kingston and Mayo [2].

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