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Adelaide Hills

0 residential parcels covering 13.3 km².

Highly restricted land

≈100% of Adelaide Hills’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Adelaide Hills ranks #1 of 22 councils in Adelaide, and #1 of 133 capital city councils nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Adelaide Hills. ABS LGA code 40120. Methodology →

Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.

Where Adelaide Hills ranks in Adelaide

Adelaide Hills ranks #1 of 22 Adelaide-area councils for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Adelaide Hills: ≈100% · rank #1 of 22

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Adelaide Plains≈100%
  2. 2. Adelaide Hills≈98%
  3. 3. Mitcham≈98%
  4. 4. Burnside≈98%
  5. ⋯
  6. 21. Playford≈67%
  7. 22. Adelaide≈33%

Low-density

  1. 1. Burnside≈90%
  2. 2. Mitcham≈90%
  3. ⋯
  4. 11. Gawler≈21%
  5. 12. Onkaparinga≈18%
  6. 13. Adelaide Hills≈17%
  7. 14. Light≈17%
  8. 15. Playford≈14%
  9. ⋯
  10. 21. Adelaide≈0%
  11. 22. Adelaide Plains≈0%

Heritage

  1. 1. Unley≈76%
  2. 2. Adelaide≈43%
  3. ⋯
  4. 9. Mount Barker≈9%
  5. 10. Holdfast Bay≈9%
  6. 11. Adelaide Hills≈7%
  7. 12. Port Adelaide Enfield≈6%
  8. 13. West Torrens≈6%
  9. ⋯
  10. 21. Salisbury≈0%
  11. 22. Light≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Adelaide Hills≈100%
  2. 2. Adelaide Plains≈100%
  3. 3. Burnside≈98%
  4. ⋯
  5. 21. Playford≈67%
  6. 22. Adelaide≈44%

Source: Adelaide Hills ranked against other Adelaide-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Suburbs in Adelaide Hills

7 suburbs sit inside this council.

ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Adelaide Hills.

  1. Aldgate≈100%
  2. Balhannah≈100%
  3. Bridgewater (SA)≈100%
  4. Crafers≈100%
  5. Lobethal≈100%
  6. Stirling (SA)≈100%
  7. Woodside (SA)≈100%
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Adelaide context

Adelaide Hills ranks #1 of 22 councils in Adelaide for highly restricted residential land.

  1. Adelaide Hills ≈100%
  2. Adelaide Plains ≈100%
  3. Burnside ≈98%
  4. Mitcham ≈98%
  5. Campbelltown (SA) ≈96%
  6. Holdfast Bay ≈95%
  7. Charles Sturt ≈94%
  8. Tea Tree Gully ≈94%
  9. Walkerville ≈93%
  10. Unley ≈92%
  11. Norwood Payneham and St Peters ≈92%
  12. Salisbury ≈92%
  13. Port Adelaide Enfield ≈92%
  14. Marion ≈87%
  15. Onkaparinga ≈86%
  16. Prospect ≈85%
  17. Gawler ≈83%
  18. West Torrens ≈81%
  19. Light ≈76%
  20. Mount Barker ≈73%
  21. Playford ≈67%
  22. Adelaide ≈44%
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Detailed zoning map

Adelaide Hills’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Adelaide Hills

  1. Established NeighbourhoodEN<1 km²2.5%
  2. Housing Diversity NeighbourhoodHDN<1 km²3.1%
  3. Hills NeighbourhoodHN<1 km²8.0%
  4. Suburban NeighbourhoodSN<1 km²5.2%
  5. TownshipT4 km²73.3%
  6. Township Activity CentreTAC<1 km²0.8%
  7. Township Main StreetTMS<1 km²4.8%
  8. Suburban Main StreetSMS<1 km²2.2%
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Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.

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