Highly restricted land
≈98% of Burnside’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Burnside ranks #3 of 22 councils in Adelaide, and #9 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Burnside. ABS LGA code 40700. 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 Burnside ranks in Adelaide
Burnside ranks #3 of 22 Adelaide-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Burnside: ≈98% · rank #3 of 22
2-storey cap
- 1. Adelaide Plains≈100%
- 2. Adelaide Hills≈98%
- 3. Mitcham≈98%
- 4. Burnside≈98%
- 5. Campbelltown (SA)≈95%
- 6. Tea Tree Gully≈94%
- ⋯
- 21. Playford≈67%
- 22. Adelaide≈33%
Low-density
- 1. Burnside≈90%
- 2. Mitcham≈90%
- 3. Unley≈83%
- ⋯
- 21. Adelaide≈0%
- 22. Adelaide Plains≈0%
Heritage
- 1. Unley≈76%
- 2. Adelaide≈43%
- 3. Walkerville≈39%
- 4. Norwood Payneham and St Peters≈26%
- 5. Burnside≈17%
- 6. Gawler≈16%
- 7. Prospect≈13%
- ⋯
- 21. Salisbury≈0%
- 22. Light≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Adelaide Hills≈100%
- 2. Adelaide Plains≈100%
- 3. Burnside≈98%
- 4. Mitcham≈98%
- 5. Campbelltown (SA)≈96%
- ⋯
- 21. Playford≈67%
- 22. Adelaide≈44%
Source: Burnside ranked against other Adelaide-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Burnside
14 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Burnside.
Adelaide context
Burnside ranks #3 of 22 councils in Adelaide for highly restricted residential land.
- Adelaide Hills ≈100%
- Adelaide Plains ≈100%
- Burnside ≈98%
- Mitcham ≈98%
- Campbelltown (SA) ≈96%
- Holdfast Bay ≈95%
- Charles Sturt ≈94%
- Tea Tree Gully ≈94%
- Walkerville ≈93%
- Unley ≈92%
- Norwood Payneham and St Peters ≈92%
- Salisbury ≈92%
- Port Adelaide Enfield ≈92%
- Marion ≈87%
- Onkaparinga ≈86%
- Prospect ≈85%
- Gawler ≈83%
- West Torrens ≈81%
- Light ≈76%
- Mount Barker ≈73%
- Playford ≈67%
- Adelaide ≈44%
Detailed zoning map
Burnside’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Burnside
- Established NeighbourhoodEN3 km²18.4%
- Housing Diversity NeighbourhoodHDN<1 km²0.8%
- Hills NeighbourhoodHN4 km²25.4%
- Suburban NeighbourhoodSN7 km²46.2%
- General NeighbourhoodGN<1 km²3.3%
- Local Activity CentreLAC<1 km²0.6%
- Suburban Activity CentreSAC<1 km²1.1%
- Business NeighbourhoodBN<1 km²2.2%
- Suburban BusinessSB<1 km²0.2%
- Urban Corridor (Boulevard)UC(Bo)<1 km²0.8%
- Urban Corridor (Living)UC(L)<1 km²1.0%
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.