Coutts's Island extends from White's Bridge on the North Road to the end of the island, a distance of about five miles. The public school of the district is known by the name of Kaiapoi Island school. There is also a post office. The district is in the Eyreton riding of the Ashley county, and at the census of 1901 it had a population of seventy-one souls. The land is good agricultural and pastoral country.