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Best suburbs in Adelaide for families

Safety, parks, green space and the age profile of the people already living there.

How this is ranked. An equal-weighted blend of four measures: safety (recorded offences per 1,000), parks, green space within walking distance, and how family-aged the existing population is. See the honesty note below about school catchments. 299 of 299 Adelaide suburbs had enough data to be ranked. Updated September 2026.

What this list does not include: school catchments. Every competing list leans on them and we do not hold that data yet, so we have left it out rather than implied we accounted for it. Catchment data is the next input we want. Judge this list on the four measures above, which are stated, sourced and reproducible — which is four more than the alternatives state.

#	Suburb	Safety	Parks	Green space	Median age
1	Wynn Vale	84	94	94	42
2	Trott Park	93	86	92	39
3	Craigburn Farm	99	73	98	41
4	Flagstaff Hill	97	78	88	43
5	Hazelwood Park	91	92	78	43
6	Glenalta	99	80	80	42
7	Modbury Heights	82	87	90	40
8	Aberfoyle Park	83	91	82	42
9	Seaview Downs	94	66	95	42
10	Redwood Park	88	75	86	40
11	Sheidow Park	90	82	76	38
12	Northgate	74	92	82	38
13	Woodcroft	92	70	84	42
14	Wattle Park	91	84	70	46
15	Fairview Park	85	80	76	40
16	Happy Valley	88	58	94	42
17	Walkley Heights	77	68	94	42
18	Seacombe Heights	93	84	60	40
19	West Lakes Shore	59	99	77	48
20	Reynella East	68	76	90	45
21	Panorama	69	88	77	43
22	Marino	92	64	76	47
23	Surrey Downs	45	94	91	38
24	Modbury North	54	88	85	40
25	Coromandel Valley	98	64	64	41

Showing the top 25 of 299 ranked suburbs. Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Adelaide: 100 is the best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Click any suburb for its full profile.

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Sources: open GPS activity traces, official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap (ODbL). No ranking on this site is sold or sponsored.
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