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The official 2021 locality evidence counted 6,823 residents and recorded 3,419 private dwellings, with 556 unoccupied on Census night. The responsible use is geographic context; market conclusions require current listing, enquiry and property information. Census evidence does not measure visitor or booking demand.

On the map, North Adelaide falls about 2 kilometres north of Adelaide. It says nothing about local government, tourism membership or a guaranteed journey. The nearby guides for Bowden and Gilberton give guests two useful comparison points without turning the page into an indiscriminate link list.

North Adelaide carries real density. Flats and apartments are 28% of occupied private dwellings, separate houses 21.3%, and townhouses 50.2%.

North Adelaide is a smaller-dwelling market. Two-bedroom homes are the commonest size at 41.3% of occupied private dwellings, and 56.3% have two bedrooms or fewer. The 2021 count recorded 398 one-bedroom, 1,182 two-bedroom, 932 three-bedroom and 230 four-bedroom dwellings, plus 82 with five bedrooms or more. That puts North Adelaide well below the Adelaide area median of 74.9% for three-bedroom-plus stock.

In 2021, 35.3% of occupied dwellings in North Adelaide kept two or more motor vehicles. The split was 1,477 dwellings with one vehicle, 763 with two and 240 with three or more. 12.8% recorded no motor vehicle at all, so a meaningful share of the local population is not driving.

47.6% of work journeys from North Adelaide were made by car on Census day. 15.4% walked or cycled. 13.5% worked from home, which is a fair proxy for whether the internet here is good enough to sell a stay on.

The commonest household in North Adelaide is single-person, at 41.7% of households. Lone-person households are a large share at 41.7%, with 8.2% of households at four people or more. Across 1,494 families, 26.6% were couples with children, 60.7% couples without and 10.1% one-parent families.

The median age in North Adelaide was 39 at the 2021 Census, in line with the Adelaide area median of 40. Households averaged 1.9 people and 0.8 persons per bedroom. Median rent was $390 a week, above the $325 median across the Adelaide localities DirectStay covers. Median mortgage repayments were $1,914 a month. Median household income ran to $1,867 a week, against $964 for an individual.

North Adelaide has a substantial rental base, with 47.1% of occupied private dwellings rented in 2021, 17.3% mortgaged and 33.3% owned outright. That is 1,348 rented dwellings in the locality count.

Every figure above describes the resident population of North Adelaide at the 2021 Census. None of it describes visitors, nightly rates, occupancy or short-stay supply, and it must not be presented as if it did. Its use is to set expectations a host can then confirm from the property itself: the real bedroom count and bed layout, how many vehicles the space genuinely takes and whether that space is on-title or on-street, the actual route to the door, and the house rules a street of this kind will expect around noise and turnover.

The local content record supports planning for regional touring and stopovers, family or community visits and practical multi-night stays. They provide useful page architecture without pretending to quantify local demand.

Sources: ABS 2021 Census DataPacks locality evidence (SAL41038) and ABS 2021 Census DataPacks, Suburbs and Localities tables G02 medians and averages, G29 family composition, G34 motor vehicles, G35 household composition, G36 dwelling structure, G37 tenure, G41 bedrooms and G62 travel to work and ABS ASGS Edition 3 Suburbs and Localities geography. Census figures provide locality context only and do not measure short-stay demand.