Highly restricted land
≈92% of Salisbury’s residential land is highly restricted.
Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Salisbury ranks #12 of 22 councils in Adelaide, and #38 of 133 capital city councils nationally.
Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Salisbury. ABS LGA code 47140. 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 Salisbury ranks in Adelaide
Salisbury ranks #12 of 22 Adelaide-area councils for highly restricted residential land.
Highly restricted
Salisbury: ≈92% · rank #12 of 22
2-storey cap
- 1. Adelaide Plains≈100%
- 2. Adelaide Hills≈98%
- ⋯
- 7. Charles Sturt≈94%
- 8. Walkerville≈93%
- 9. Salisbury≈92%
- 10. Holdfast Bay≈92%
- 11. Unley≈92%
- ⋯
- 21. Playford≈67%
- 22. Adelaide≈33%
Low-density
- 1. Burnside≈90%
- 2. Mitcham≈90%
- ⋯
- 16. Port Adelaide Enfield≈10%
- 17. Campbelltown (SA)≈9%
- 18. Salisbury≈6%
- 19. Tea Tree Gully≈4%
- 20. Mount Barker≈0%
- 21. Adelaide≈0%
- 22. Adelaide Plains≈0%
Heritage
- 1. Unley≈76%
- 2. Adelaide≈43%
- ⋯
- 19. Playford≈0%
- 20. Adelaide Plains≈0%
- 21. Salisbury≈0%
- 22. Light≈0%
Highly restricted
- 1. Adelaide Hills≈100%
- 2. Adelaide Plains≈100%
- ⋯
- 10. Unley≈92%
- 11. Norwood Payneham and St Peters≈92%
- 12. Salisbury≈92%
- 13. Port Adelaide Enfield≈92%
- 14. Marion≈87%
- ⋯
- 21. Playford≈67%
- 22. Adelaide≈44%
Source: Salisbury ranked against other Adelaide-area councils on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →
Suburbs in Salisbury
19 suburbs sit inside this council.
ABS Suburb & Locality (SAL) boundaries that fall at least 30% inside Salisbury.
- Gulfview Heights≈100%
- Para Hills West≈100%
- Salisbury Heights≈100%
- Salisbury Park≈100%
- Valley View≈100%
- Brahma Lodge≈100%
- Salisbury East≈99%
- Salisbury North≈99%
- Parafield Gardens≈99%
- Paralowie≈99%
- Burton (SA)≈98%
- Para Vista≈98%
- Walkley Heights≈98%
- Para Hills≈98%
- Pooraka≈98%
- Ingle Farm≈95%
- Salisbury Downs≈92%
- Salisbury (SA)≈88%
- Mawson Lakes≈2%
Adelaide context
Salisbury ranks #12 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
Salisbury’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon
Every residential zone in Salisbury
- Established NeighbourhoodEN<1 km²<0.1%
- Housing Diversity NeighbourhoodHDN2 km²4.3%
- Hills NeighbourhoodHN3 km²6.1%
- Suburban NeighbourhoodSN<1 km²1.1%
- General NeighbourhoodGN34 km²82.5%
- Master Planned NeighbourhoodMPN<1 km²<0.1%
- Local Activity CentreLAC<1 km²0.4%
- Suburban Activity CentreSAC1 km²3.2%
- Urban Activity CentreUAC1 km²1.3%
- Suburban BusinessSB<1 km²0.1%
- Urban NeighbourhoodUN<1 km²0.9%
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.