Torrens Island, South Australia Station has been listed on the South Australian Heritage Register since 21 October 1993. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Torrens Island had a population of zero. Torrens Island is located within the federal division of Port Adelaide and the state electoral district of Port Adelaide Since at least 2009, Torrens Island has not been located within a local government area. Torrens Island is linked to the mainland by the Grand Trunkway via a bridge across the North Arm of the Port River to Garden Island and a causeway across Angas Inlet, but as
Electoral district of Torrens a five-seat multi-member district stretching from the north-eastern suburbs through the eastern and southern suburbs to the south-western suburbs; together with the three-member Port Adelaide (covering the north-western and western suburbs) and the four-member Adelaide (covering central Adelaide and the inner-northern suburbs), the three districts with a total of 12-members covered the whole of the metropolitan area in the 42 member house. Torrens was abolished and absorbed into the new seats of East Torrens and Sturt at the 1915 election. Torrens existed as a marginal to fairly safe Liberal and Country League/Liberal single-member seat under the Playmander system from the