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ABS 2021 Census · Updated 21 May 2026
Adelaide Airport is a regional centre in South Australia, Australia, with a population of approximately 4, making it a boutique locality. Located approximately 7 km from the Adelaide CBD, Adelaide Airport is a regional area in South Australia. The median household income is $85,000 per year.
Moderate income levels in Adelaide Airport indicate steady rental demand from working households. The short commute to the city centre is a key demand driver.
Official Australia Post postcode for Adelaide Airport. A postcode may cover multiple suburbs.
Australia Post Postcode Finder →Usual resident population at the most recent census.
Weekly median rent for occupied homes. Live rental data integration coming soon.
Annual median household income (before tax) across all households.
Straight-line distance from the suburb centroid to the nearest capital city CBD. Actual driving distance will be longer.
Estimated 1 school within or near this suburb.
Find schools near Adelaide Airport on My School →Estimated 1 park and green spaces near this suburb.
Monthly median mortgage repayment for households currently paying off a mortgage.
Proportion of separate houses versus units, townhouses, and other home types. Useful for investors assessing rental demand mix.
Adelaide Airport is a smaller community of 4 — about 0% of the South Australia suburb median (3,699) — so investors should factor in the narrower buyer pool and longer average time-on-market. Households here earn $85,000/year on average — 5% above the SA suburb median of $80,964 — a modest premium that supports resilient owner-occupier demand. At 7 km from the Adelaide CBD, Adelaide Airport sits inside the high-demand inner ring — properties here compete directly with the city's employment, transport and amenity networks.
How Adelaide Airport stacks up against the median of all South Australia suburbs in our dataset. Positive values mean Adelaide Airport sits above the state median; negative means below.
| Metric | Adelaide Airport | SA median | Δ vs state |
|---|---|---|---|
| Population | 4 | 3,699 | -100% |
| Median household income | $85,000/yr | $80,964/yr | +5% |
| Distance to CBD | 7 km | 13 km | -46% |
Pre-inspection briefing for Adelaide Airport — every item is derived from public datasets, with full citations in our data sources page.
Limited buy-and-hold upside: a small population of 4 means liquidity is thin and capital growth tends to lag the wider South Australia market over full cycles.
Median rental data was not captured for Adelaide Airport. Use current realestate.com.au and Domain listings to triangulate a realistic weekly rent before committing, then feed that number into our rental yield calculator.
With a population of 4, the resale market in Adelaide Airport may not reliably reward cosmetic renovations — a longer hold is typically a better strategy at this scale, letting land-value appreciation do the work instead.
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Create free account →Capital-growth expectations for Adelaide Airport are modest for 2026 — incomes 5% above the SA median of $80,964 and a population of 4 suggest gains will lag headline metro markets. Rental fundamentals will need to be verified against live listings, as a clean median rent was not recorded for Adelaide Airport. The EquitySight investment score of 50/100 places Adelaide Airport in the mid tier of Australian suburbs we profile, and overall investor sentiment is balanced heading into the second half of 2026.
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Adelaide Airport scores 50/100 on our EquitySight investment framework — a moderate rating. That score is driven by a population of 4, median household income of $85,000/year. Whether it fits your portfolio depends on whether you are targeting cash flow, capital growth, or a value-add renovation — all three are scored with suburb-specific numbers elsewhere on this page.
The main demand drivers in Adelaide Airport are proximity to Adelaide (7 km), an above-state-median household income of $85,000/year, roughly 1 schools and 1 parks within the catchment. Together these shape both owner-occupier and tenant demand and are the factors we weight most heavily in the suburb's investment score.
Adelaide Airport has a usual resident population of approximately 4, compared with a South Australia suburb median of 3,699 — placing it in the lower half of the state's suburbs by size. Population is the clearest proxy for market depth: more residents mean more transactions and typically a shorter average days-on-market on resale.
Adelaide Airport sits 7 km straight-line from the Adelaide CBD. This is inner-ring territory — pricing competes directly with established Adelaide employment nodes.
A reliable median rent was not captured for Adelaide Airport. Benchmark expected weekly rent on realestate.com.au and Domain, or the state rental tribunal's rent dashboard. Most Australian investors target a 4–5% gross yield as a baseline.
A reliable median mortgage figure was not captured for Adelaide Airport. Use our loan serviceability calculator to estimate a realistic monthly repayment for your target purchase price and deposit.
Census data was not complete enough in Adelaide Airport to compute a clean rent-to-mortgage coverage. Use current listings to benchmark weekly rent, then plug your expected purchase price into our rental yield calculator to see whether the investment runs cash-flow positive or negative.
The main risks are a thin buyer pool (4 residents), interest-rate sensitivity, the broader South Australia market cycle. Each of these is covered in the Risk Factors section above with suburb-specific numbers rather than generic warnings.
Every number on this page comes from the ABS 2021 Census of Population and Housing, Australia Post postcode reference data, and OpenStreetMap amenity tiles. The investment score, strategy verdicts, and comparison table are computed deterministically from those inputs — no opinion, no estimation. See our full methodology and the data sources and licences for the formulas we use.