Walkley Heights SA 5098

Living Here

Walkley Heights is a suburb of South Australia, home to about 3,513 people, with a median age of 42. The typical household earns around $1,773 a week, with median rent near $370 a week. Most homes are houses. About 75% of households own their home and 12% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Indian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 7 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area. The median house sells for about $1,260,000.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Ingle Farm statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Walkley Heights itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 23 schools

  • Ingle Farm East Primary School
  • Heritage College
  • St Paul's College
  • Cedar College
  • Valley View Secondary School
  • Roma Mitchell Secondary College
  • Northfield Primary School
  • North Ingle School
  • Prescott Primary Northern
  • Para Vista Junior and Primary School

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• 25 cafés & restaurants

  • Quick Thai Cuisine
  • Curryosity
  • St George's Backhouse
  • Yum Delicious
  • Grand North
  • Kimura Sushi
  • Boost Juice
  • Think Coffee
  • Sorrelli Cafe & Ristorante
  • Wokinabox

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• 13 supermarkets

  • Drakes
  • ALDI
  • Coles
  • Woolworths
  • IGA
  • Drakes
  • Aus India Supermarket
  • Woolworths
  • Younger Asian Grocery
  • ALDI

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• 35 parks

  • Walkley Heights Reserve
  • Bromley Green
  • Cornell Ave Reserve
  • Swanbourne Reserve
  • Leopold Conrad Reserve
  • Adelaide City Park
  • Pauls Drive Reserve and Playground
  • Butler Grove Reserve
  • Hedge Row Reserve
  • Woodland Reserve

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• 7 Catholic churches

  • St Francis Of Assisi Catholic Church
  • Catcholic Church Hectorville
  • Church of the Holy Name
  • St Marys
  • Saint David's Catholic Church
  • St Augustine's Church
  • St Laurence
• 2 pharmacies

  • Priceline Pharmacy
  • Chemist Warehouse
• 5 doctors & medical clinics

  • Ingle Farm Health Care
  • Ingle Farm Medical Centre
  • Oakden Medical Centre
  • Gilles Plains Medical Centre
  • Hampstead Health
• 3 dentists

  • Ingle Farm Dental Surgery
  • Northgate Dental Care
  • Klemzig Dental Clinic
• 5 physiotherapists

  • Ingleview Physiotherapy
  • Back In Motion
  • Aim Physiotherapy
  • Back In Motion
  • Proactive Health
• 5 optometrists

  • Specsavers
  • Optical Superstore
  • Optical Superstore
  • Options Optometrists Tea Tree Plaza
  • Specsavers
• 22 hospitals

  • Hampstead Centre
  • Modbury Hospital
  • North Eastern Community Hospital
  • The Adelaide Clinic
  • sportsmed Stepney Healthcare Hub
  • Womens and Childrens Hospital
  • The Memorial Hospital
  • Calvary North Adelaide Hospital
  • Calvary Central Districts Hospital
  • Burnside War Memorial Hospital

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• 5 vets

  • Northfield Veterinary Clinic
  • Pet Universe Vetenirary Centre
  • Pet Universe
  • Northeast Veterinary Clinic
  • Para Hills Veterinary Clinic
• 2 childcare & kindergartens

  • Walkley Heights Child Care Centre
  • Curiosity Early Learning Centre
• 7 libraries

  • Ingle Farm Library
  • Para Hills Library
  • Greenacres Library
  • Enfield Library
  • Mawson Lakes Library
  • City of Tea Tree Gully Library
  • Paradise Primary School Library
• 2 post offices

  • Australia Post
  • AusPost
• 21 service stations

  • Shell
  • OTR Pooraka
  • Liberty
  • Woolworths Petrol
  • Shell Windsor Gardens
  • United
  • Ampol Foodary Holden Hill
  • OTR Hillcrest
  • OTR Para Hills
  • OTR Holden Hill South Cnr Tarton Road

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• 12 gyms & sports centres

  • Ingle Farm Recreational Centre
  • Solid Impact Fitness
  • Snap Fitness
  • Oaks Swim Centre
  • Zap Fitness
  • Vertical Reality Climbing
  • Pooraka Tennis Club
  • Derrimut 24:7 Gym
  • The Lights Community and Sports Centre
  • Fitness Factory

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• 7 golf clubs

  • Valley View Par 3 Golf Course
  • Mawson Lakes Golf Course
  • Regency Park Community Golf Course
  • Little Para Golf Course
  • North Adelaide Golf Course
  • Tea Tree Gully Golf Club
  • North Adelaide Golf Course Par 3
• 8 playgrounds

  • Walkley Heights Reserve
  • Stonewell Common
  • Cornell Ave Reserve
  • Oloughlin Street
  • Pauls Drive Reserve
  • Butler Grove Reserve
  • Hawick Reserve
  • Fulton Reserve
• 4 dog parks

  • L.J. Lewis Reserve Dog Park
  • Mawson Lakes Dog Park
  • Bentley Reserve Dog Park
  • Ashley Avenue Dog Park
• 6 bakeries

  • Homestead Cafe Bakery
  • Bakers Delight
  • Ingle Farm Bakery
  • Brumby's Bakeries
  • The Cheescake Shop
  • Price's Fresh Bakery
• 2 butchers

  • Clovercrest Gourmet Meats
  • OG Meat Market
• 7 hardware stores

  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Sydney Tools
  • Stratco Gepps Cross
  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Paramount Browns
  • Bunnings Warehouse
  • Mitre 10
• 3 hairdressers

  • Lion King Barber
  • UNRVLD Elite Barber Co.
  • Happy's Cut
• 2 beauty salons

  • Vanity
  • My Salon Hair & Beauty
• 10 mechanics

  • Mycar
  • Fours
  • Holden Hill Crash Repairs
  • GB Auto Care
  • Steve Tehan Auto Repairs
  • Kmart Tyre & Auto Service
  • Midas Tyre & Auto Service
  • Lower North East Automotive
  • Future Pit
  • Ultra Tune
• 2 electricians

  • Infront Electrical Contractors
  • Middy's Electrical
• 1 plumber

  • W.F. Gray
• 11 places to stay

  • Bridgeway Hotel
  • Budget Motel
  • Windsor Hotel
  • Clovercrest Hotel
  • The Manor
  • Manhattan
  • Crowne Plaza Adelaide Mawson Lakes
  • Windsor Gardens Caravan Park
  • Sfera's Park Suites & Convention Centre
  • The Valley Inn

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Getting around. Train station: Dry Creek, 4.9 km west · Bus interchange: Paradise Interchange, 3.8 km south-east · Airport: Adelaide Airport, 15 km south-west.

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Socio-economic Standing

Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.

Median Sale Prices

Median of recorded sales in the period, not a valuation. Source: Metropolitan Median House Sales, Valuer-General South Australia.

Tree cover

🌳 Tree canopy: 16.7% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.

Demographics

Unemployment 3.9% · Labour-force participation 59.6%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

30,494 bird observations recorded near Walkley Heights — most often seen:

• Rainbow Lorikeet (2,008)
• Noisy Miner (1,794)
• Australian Magpie (1,668)
• Australian White Ibis (1,551)
• Dusky Moorhen (1,412)
• Pacific Black Duck (1,365)
• Rock Dove (1,320)
• Australian Wood Duck (1,304)
• Magpie-lark (1,149)
• Little Raven (947)
• Australasian Purple Swamphen (939)
• Eurasian Coot (899)
• Southern Magpie-lark (897)

Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.

Nearby Suburbs

The closest suburbs to Walkley Heights:

• Ingle Farm (1.4 km)
• Northgate (1.6 km)
• Oakden (1.7 km)
• Northfield (2 km)
• Valley View (2 km)
• Pooraka (2 km)
• Gilles Plains (2.3 km)
• Hillcrest (2.6 km)

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