Glenelg
SA · 5 schools · 13 childcare services
21,791 residents - 11.9% are children under 15, median age 48, the largest overseas-born community is United Kingdom (8.4%).
Family-Fit score
Our method is published belowStrong for families - strongest on childcare & early years, weakest on families already here.
- Schools in the area · 20% of the score
- 94/100
- Childcare & early years · 15% of the score
- 100/100
- Everyday amenities · 15% of the score
- 81/100
- Housing affordability · 15% of the score
- 44/100
- Families already here · 10% of the score
- 31/100
- Socio-economic profile · 10% of the score
- 67/100
SA median 68/100
5 schools in this SA2 · average government-school ICSEA 1071
SA median 70/100
13 NQS-rated services nearby
SA median 67/100
27 parks · 1 GP · 3 supermarkets · 18 playgrounds
SA median 53/100
Paying over 30% of income on housing: 13.5% of mortgage-holding households, 32.8% of renting households
SA median 58/100
11.9% of residents are children aged 0–14 · 34.9% of families are couples with children
SA median 33/100
SEIFA IRSAD decile 7 of 10 nationally
The grey marker on each bar is the median across the 164 South Australia areas we publish a score for (state median overall: 61/100). It is context, not a pass mark.
Not scored here (no published data for this area, so it is left out rather than counted as zero): Getting around. The remaining inputs were rescaled to 100.
How this score is calculated
Every input is a free, already-published government figure for the Glenelg SA2, mapped onto 0–100 by the fixed thresholds written below, then weighted. Inputs with no published data for this area are dropped and the rest rescaled - never scored as zero. We publish this method in full; the point of the score is that you can check it.
Read the bars, not just the number. Two inputs - school intake profile and SEIFA - both partly reflect how wealthy an area is, so they tend to move together. That is a real limitation of the score, which is why the breakdown is shown next to it.
What is deliberately not in it. School results (NAPLAN or VCE), crime, and flood or bushfire overlays are not graded into this score. Those appear elsewhere on this page as the official figures themselves, described in words - never reduced to a grade.
Sources: ACARA school register, ACECQA National Quality Standard register, OpenStreetMap, state GTFS timetables, ABS Census 2021, ABS SEIFA 2021 and the ABS housing affordability indicators. Where each dataset comes from →
Boundaries: ABS Suburbs & Localities 2021. School pins are ACARA's published locations. Map © OpenStreetMap contributors, © CARTO. Open the full SA map →
Why “Glenelg (SA)”? The ABS divides the larger suburb of Glenelg into several statistical areas (SA2s); this profile covers one part of it. Other parts are listed further down. SA2 boundaries don’t always match suburb boundaries. It covers the gazetted suburbs of Glenelg North, Somerton Park, Glenelg East, Glenelg and Glenelg South, drawn separately on the map above.
Adelaide beachside hub with the historic Jetty Road tram line, family beaches, and a relaxed pace.
Living in Glenelg
A large suburb. Strong United Kingdom communities here (2021 Census). Many childcare options nearby - 13 NQS-rated services.
What families notice
- At least one nearby government school has an above-average ICSEA intake profile (1078 vs. 1000 national average).
- 27 parks mapped inside this SA2 (OpenStreetMap).
- 5 schools sit inside this SA2 - more choice than most areas this size.
- We don't have official school-zoning data for SA yet (only VIC and NSW) - confirm zoning directly with the school or department.
- We don't yet have official crime data for SA (only NSW and VIC) - that's a data gap on our side, not a claim this area is safe.
- About 33% of renters here spend over 30% of income on rent - above the standard affordability guideline (ABS Census 2021).
Schools, childcare & safety
Live data for the Glenelg (SA) SA2 - ACARA schools register, ACECQA childcare ratings.
Government schools in Glenelg
Free government schools your child may attend. Exact school zones aren’t mapped for SA yet, so we can’t confirm which one is yours.
A picture of students’ family backgrounds (ICSEA) - not a ranking or a quality score.
Fee-paying schools can’t be enrolled in by zone - they’re shown for context, not as the area’s school quality.
We show school intake context and catchments, not exam results. We don’t publish a school ranking.
Schools in Glenelg (SA)
- Combined · Catholic · Years 7-12Enrolment2,033ICSEA1083
- Primary · Government · Years R-6Enrolment613ICSEA1078
- Primary · Independent · Years R-6Enrolment509ICSEA1140
- Primary · Catholic · Years R-6Enrolment405ICSEA1113
- Primary · Government · Years R-6Enrolment387ICSEA1064
ICSEA reflects student intake context, not teaching quality (1000 = national average). All SA schools →
Childcare & early learning
- Exceeding NQSBaden Pattinson KindergartenCentre-Based Care · 34 places · Glenelg NorthRated May 2017 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Exceeding NQSSomerton Park KindergartenCentre-Based Care · 30 places · Somerton ParkRated Sep 2016 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSSt Peter's Woodlands OSHCCentre-Based Care · 150 places · GlenelgRated Nov 2018 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSHappy Haven OSHC GlenelgCentre-Based Care · 150 places · Glenelg EastRated Mar 2023 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSSt Peter's Woodlands Early Learning CentreCentre-Based Care · 135 places · GlenelgRated Dec 2018 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSEden Academy GlenelgCentre-Based Care · 118 places · Glenelg EastRated Oct 2025
- Meeting NQSGoodstart Early Learning Somerton ParkCentre-Based Care · 110 places · Somerton ParkRated Mar 2019 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSSt Mary's Memorial School OSHCCentre-Based Care · 90 places · GlenelgRated Aug 2018 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSGoodstart Early Learning GlenelgCentre-Based Care · 70 places · Glenelg NorthRated Oct 2018 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSNido Early School Somerton ParkCentre-Based Care · 63 places · Somerton ParkRated Dec 2020 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
- Meeting NQSGlenelg Community Child Care CentreCentre-Based Care · 52 places · Glenelg NorthRated Jan 2025
- Meeting NQSDunbar Terrace KindergartenCentre-Based Care · 30 places · Glenelg EastRated Aug 2020 · over 3 years old, check for a more recent assessment
+ 1 more services in this area.
- Centre-based day care
- $14.14/hr
- Outside school hours care
- $8.10/hr
Mean hourly fee across CCS-approved services, December quarter 2025 - Dept of Education. Published at SA3 level (a wider area than this suburb's SA2), so it's an average across Holdfast Bay and surrounds, not this specific service list.
NQS = National Quality Standard, the government benchmark ACECQA rates every service against - from "Working Towards" (below benchmark) up through "Meeting", "Exceeding" and "Excellent". Services matched by suburb name on the ACECQA register - verify locations before visiting. Ratings are reassessed periodically, not on a fixed schedule - a rating over 3 years old is flagged so you know to check for anything more recent.
Safety - recorded incidents
Official recorded-incident data is only published on this site for NSW and VIC so far - that's a coverage gap on our side, not a claim that Glenelg is safe. More on safety →
The suburbs in this area
Everything else on this page is published for Glenelg (SA) as a whole - one ABS statistical area covering 5 separate gazetted suburbs. These are the figures published for each of those suburbs on its own.
| Suburb | Residents Census 2021 | Schools |
|---|---|---|
| Glenelg North | 6,594 | 1 |
| Somerton Park | 5,811 | 1 |
| Glenelg East | 3,855 | 1 |
| Glenelg | 3,440 | 2 |
| Glenelg South | 2,184 | 0 |
Each row is that suburb's own published figure - nothing here is the wider area's number divided up. Resident counts are the Census 2021 usual-resident count for the gazetted suburb, so they will not add up to the population at the top of this page, which is the ABS's later June 2025 estimate for the whole statistical area: a different measure on a different date. Schools are ACARA-registered schools whose published address falls inside the suburb boundary, which is not the same as the school your address is zoned to. No free source publishes suburb-level house medians in South Australia, so no price column is shown - that is our coverage gap, not a statement about the market here. Every other figure on this page - safety, overlays, commute, amenities, projections, the Family-Fit score - is published for the whole statistical area and cannot be separated by suburb.
Ages of people here
8.3% of people here are school-age children (5–14) - fewer than the South Australia average of 11.7%, and 3.6% are under 5. The median age is 48.
- 0–4 years · before school
- 3.6%
- 5–14 years · school age
- 8.3%
- 15–19 years · teens
- 4.9%
- 20–34 years
- 17.4%
- 35–54 years
- 24.3%
- 55–64 years
- 14.4%
- 65 years and over
- 27.2%
SA avg 5.3%
SA avg 11.7%
SA avg 5.6%
SA avg 19.3%
SA avg 25.3%
SA avg 12.8%
SA avg 20%
Share of all residents of Glenelg (SA) (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. Bands are the ABS’s own age groups, combined only where whole groups sit side by side - nothing is split or estimated inside a group. The seven shares cover everyone, but they don’t total exactly 100%: the ABS adjusts small counts slightly to protect privacy. The grey marker on each bar is the South Australia average, population-weighted across the 172 SA2s in the state and shown for context only - it is not a target or a pass mark.
Households and families
47% of families here have children living at home - fewer than the South Australia average of 57%. The largest overseas-born communities are United Kingdom (8.4%), India (1.6%) and New Zealand (0.9%). 34% of homes are rented.
Family make-up
Share of all families in the area. A small "other family" group the ABS also counts is not shown.
- Couple with children
- 34.9%
- One-parent family
- 12.5%
- Couple, no children
- 51.2%
SA avg 40.7%
SA avg 16.7%
SA avg 41%
What people live in
Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated structures are not shown.
- Separate house
- 43.2%
- Semi-detached / townhouse
- 32.8%
- Flat or apartment
- 23.6%
SA avg 78.8%
SA avg 14.2%
SA avg 6.5%
Owned or rented
Share of occupied private dwellings. Other and unstated tenures are not shown.
- Owned outright
- 36.2%
- Owned with a mortgage
- 26%
- Rented
- 33.8%
SA avg 33.1%
SA avg 36.5%
SA avg 27.7%
Figures describe Glenelg (SA) (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The grey marker on each bar is the South Australia average, population-weighted across the 172 SA2s in the state and shown for context only - it is not a target or a pass mark. The ABS does not publish every breakdown for smaller areas, so some groups may be missing.
Who lives in Glenelg (SA)
Top 5 overseas birthplaces shown · 87.6% born in Australia or a country not in the top five.
- United Kingdom · established by 2016
- 8.4%
- India · established by 2016
- 1.6%
- New Zealand · established by 2016
- 0.9%
- Germany · established by 2016
- 0.8%
- China · established by 2016
- 0.7%
SA avg 6.3%
SA avg 2.4%
SA avg 0.4%
SA avg 0.2%
SA avg 1.2%
- Nearby
- Morphettville, Brighton and Edwardstown also have an established United Kingdom community.
- Settlement pattern
- Of overseas-born residents who stated when they arrived, 23.2% arrived in the last 5 years (2016–2021) (SA avg 16.4%) and 49.1% arrived before 2001 (SA avg 52.5%).
- English at home
- Of residents who speak a language other than English at home and stated their English proficiency, 8.4% report speaking English “not well” or “not at all” (SA avg 13%) - a self-reported ABS figure across all languages combined, not a judgement of any one community.
Figures describe Glenelg (SA) (ABS Statistical Area 2) at the 2021 Census. The grey marker on each bar is the South Australia average, population-weighted across the 172 SA2s in the state and shown for context only - it is not a target or a pass mark. The ABS publishes only the five largest communities per suburb, so a name missing from the list didn’t rank in the top five - not that nobody from it lives here. “Established by 2016” means that community was already a comparable share of the population at the 2016 Census; “growing since 2016” means its share has grown substantially since then. Both are facts about population change, not a ranking of one community against another.
Socio-economic index (SEIFA)
- Decile (1 lowest – 10 highest)
- Decile 7 of 10
- Where this sits in SA
- top 40% of South Australia areas
IRSAD (the Index of Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage) ranks this SA2 against every other area in Australia on income, education, occupation and other Census indicators, then groups them into ten equal-sized deciles. It's a relative comparison of the whole area - not a safety, liveability, or school-quality measure, and it says nothing about any individual household.
Which way this area is moving
A single census tells you what Glenelg (SA) is like now. Three tell you which way it has been heading. These are the 2011, 2016 and 2021 Censuses counted on today's boundaries.
Since 2011, Glenelg (SA) has grown older.
- People counted
- +859 people since 2011
- Median age
- +4 years since 2011
- Children aged 0–14
- +0.3 pts since 2011
- Born overseas
- +1.1 pts since 2011
- Speak another language at home
- +1.8 pts since 2011
Usual residents counted on Census night.
Half the residents are older than this, half younger.
Share of all residents. The clearest signal of families arriving or moving on.
Share of all residents born outside Australia.
Share of residents who stated a language, speaking one other than English at home.
The dashed line is the median across the areas we profile in South Australia - up to 164, counting only those that report that same measure at all three Censuses, which differs slightly by measure. It is a typical area to read this one against, not a state total, and not a target this suburb is meant to hit. Each chart carries its own axis, drawn to fit its own numbers, so compare the labelled values rather than the steepness of one chart against another. Every figure is an ABS published count, or a share of two of them - there is no index or score here, and a direction is not a verdict: a rising median age or a falling share of children is simply a change, not a better or worse suburb. The three censuses are reported on 2021 SA2 boundaries, so changes are not caused by boundary redraws. ABS adjusts small counts slightly to protect confidentiality, so treat small movements as noise.
Lifestyle & getting around
Everything mapped inside the Glenelg (SA) boundary, plus how long it takes to leave it. Counts are of features tagged in OpenStreetMap - we don't score or rank them, and each one is shown next to the middle SA area so a number means something.
Everyday essentials
Supermarkets
Middle SA area: 1
GPs & clinics
Middle SA area: 0
Parks
Middle SA area: 14
Playgrounds
Middle SA area: 7
Train stations
Middle SA area: 0
Libraries
Middle SA area: 0
Community & recreation
Places of worship
Middle SA area: 1
Community centres
Middle SA area: 0
Swimming pools
Middle SA area: 0
Sports centres
Middle SA area: 1
Out with a baby
Baby-change tables
Baby-care rooms
Public-toilet facilities recorded on the National Public Toilet Map - not every place in the area that will let you change a baby.
Getting out of the area
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Train to the city
Not publishedSouth Australia publishes its timetable data behind a free developer account we have not yet set up, so we show no travel time here. This is a gap on our side, not a statement about the transport in this area.
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Nearest emergency department
MappedAshford Hospital · 6.5 km
Straight-line distance from the middle of this area to the nearest hospital tagged with an emergency department - not a drive time, and not necessarily the closest by road. General emergency departments treat children as well as adults. In an emergency call 000; do not plan around this figure.
Counts are of features tagged in OpenStreetMap inside the Glenelg (SA) boundary, not a register of everything that exists - community mapping is uneven, so a zero can mean "not mapped" rather than "not there", and a shop or clinic just over the boundary won't appear here even if it is the one you'd use. “Middle SA area” is the median count across the 171 South Australia areas we hold counts for - context, not a target. Areas differ hugely in size, so we never turn these counts into a rate, index or score. Verify anything you're relying on with a local directory or a visit.
Risks & things to check
The checks families run one by one before committing to Glenelg, in one place. Every line is an official published record for the Glenelg (SA) area - we don't rate, score or rank any of them, and a line we can't answer says so.
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Flooding
Not publishedNo free statewide flood overlay is published for SA yet, so we show none. Check the local council's planning maps.
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Bushfire
Not publishedWe hold official bushfire mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for SA yet. Check the state fire service's mapping.
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Heritage controls
Not publishedWe hold official heritage overlay mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for SA yet. Check the local council's planning scheme and the state heritage register.
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Traffic noise
Freeway or highway presentAnzac Highway
1 named road through this area carries OpenStreetMap's highest classification - a freeway, motorway or major highway, whatever the road is called locally, alongside 6 named main roads. Roads are counted by name, not by mapped segment. Where a home sits relative to them matters far more than the count - a street two blocks back can be quiet.
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Aircraft noise
Not publishedWe hold official aircraft-noise mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for SA yet. Check the airport's noise contours and the local planning scheme.
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Land contamination checks
Not mappedWe hold official contaminated-land overlay mapping for Victoria only - nothing is published here for SA yet. Check the state environment authority's contaminated land register and the local planning scheme.
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Acid sulfate soils
Not publishedWe hold acid sulfate soil mapping for Victoria and New South Wales only - nothing is published here for SA yet. Coastal and estuarine land is where these soils occur; check the state's soil mapping and the local planning scheme.
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Recorded crime
Not publishedSA does not release the suburb-level incident counts we republish for New South Wales and Victoria, so we show none here.
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Social housing
Census figure1.1% rented from a state or territory housing authority · 1.3% from a community housing provider
Share of occupied private dwellings here with a stated tenure (Census 2021). The middle SA area is 2.4% public and 1.0% community, across 166 areas. Listed because families ask; it is a fact about who owns the homes, not a judgement about the people in them.
Hazard lines republish the extent of an official overlay across the whole Glenelg (SA) area - they are not a risk rating, hazard score or insurance assessment, and we compute none. A specific address inside the area may or may not be affected: check the current planning scheme and your insurer. Not financial or insurance advice. The traffic line names the roads mapped inside the area - it is not a noise measurement or a decibel estimate, and we compute neither: what a specific home hears depends on distance, traffic volume, speed, barriers and terrain, which no free dataset publishes. The heritage, aircraft-noise and land-contamination lines are planning controls rather than hazards, and apply property by property - the contamination line flags land an audit must check before it is used for housing or childcare, never land found to be contaminated. The acid-sulfate line covers coastal and estuarine land only, because that is where those soils form - inland, "none mapped" means outside the mapped zone, not a soil test. We don't yet cover EPA notices, mine subsidence, landslide or coastal erosion - where a line is missing, treat it as not checked rather than clear.
What's being built here
170 new homes were approved in Glenelg (SA) in the year to June 2025. Councils approved 759 new dwellings here across the 6 years to June 2025 - an approval is permission to build, not a home that exists yet.
Approved in the year to June 2025
Middle SA area: 51
Separate houses
Private sector, over these 6 years
Townhouses & apartments
Private sector, over these 6 years
An approval is not a building. These are dwellings a council approved; some are never built, and the ones that are usually take years, so this is a signal of what is planned around a suburb, not a count of homes standing in it. It is also not a forecast - nothing here is projected forward. The total covers every dwelling approved, public and private; the houses and apartments figures are the private-sector split the ABS publishes, and the two do not add up to the total wherever public housing was approved. Figures are for the whole Glenelg (SA) statistical area, which usually covers more than one suburb, and are counts only - never divided by land area or population, and never combined into a score. The dashed line is the median of the 162South Australia areas with a complete series - a typical area, for context, not a target or a pass mark.
Housing cost pressure
In Glenelg, 32.8% of renting households spend more than 30% of their income on rent, and 13.5% of households with a mortgage spend more than 30% on repayments - the ABS's stretched-household threshold (Census 2021).
How many households here are stretched by what they pay for housing. The 30% line is the ABS's own long-standing threshold - these are their published figures, not our calculation.
- Mortgage over 30% of income
- 13.5%
- Rent over 30% of income
- 32.8%
SA avg 12%
Share of households WITH a mortgage whose repayments take more than 30% of income. That's 321 of 2,119 households with a stated repayment.
SA avg 30.6%
Share of RENTING households whose rent takes more than 30% of income. That's 1,011 of 2,865 households with a stated rent.
The two figures cover different households - one counts only households paying off a mortgage, the other only households renting - so they are shown separately and must not be added or averaged. Income is the ABS's imputed household income; their published percentage also counts households that did not state a repayment or rent, which is why it does not equal the two counts above divided by each other. The grey marker on each bar is the SA average, weighted by household base across the SA2s in the state that report each figure (163 for mortgage and 164 for rent), and is context only - not a target. Census 2021 - housing costs have moved since. Not financial advice.
Where did the gain come from?
+169Reading the streams: overseas arrivals were the dominant force - more came from abroad than the suburb grew on its own.
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The next zoom out - sorted by 1-year growth
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