Question 1

What is the postcode for Colonel Light Gardens?

Accepted Answer

The postcode for Colonel Light Gardens, Adelaide is 5041.

Question 2

Is Colonel Light Gardens a good suburb?

Accepted Answer

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Colonel Light Gardens is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is wealth, ranking #8 of 274 Adelaide suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Adelaide for 9 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.

Question 3

Is Colonel Light Gardens safe?

Accepted Answer

Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Adelaide, scoring 89/100 for safety and ranking #31 of 274 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 17 per 1,000 residents. That score is recorded offences per 1,000 residents from official crime statistics, as a percentile against every other suburb in the city.

Question 4

Is Colonel Light Gardens good for families?

Accepted Answer

It rates well on the family measures we can compute — safety 89/100, parks 72/100 and green space 49/100, with a median age of 42. It has 2 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.5 km from its centre. School counts and distances feed the families score; catchment zoning and school results do not (we cannot publish those) — see our Adelaide families ranking for the full method.

Question 5

Is Colonel Light Gardens expensive to live in?

Accepted Answer

The median house sale price was $1,668,000 in Apr–Jun 2026 (SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales), down 2.5% YoY. Median rent is $400 a week, and household income ranks #8 of 274 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 94/100 for value.

Question 6

Does Colonel Light Gardens have good public transport?

Accepted Answer

It scores 85/100 for transit, #42 of 274 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Question 7

Are there parks in Colonel Light Gardens?

Accepted Answer

72% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 1.9 hectares per 1,000 residents — 49/100 for green space.

Population	3,311
Area	1.37 km²
Postcode	5041
Median household income	$2,491/wk
Median rent	$400/wk
Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026)	$1,668,000 (low volume: 8 sales; down 2.5% YoY)
Crime rate	17.2 incidents per 1,000 people
Parks	6 (1.95 ha per 1,000 people)
Schools (government data)	2 — 2 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.51 km, secondary 1.27 km
Families score	72/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park	71.7% of the suburb
Cafés	2
Gyms & sport venues	28
Public transport stops	38 (38 bus stops)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)	2 schools in the suburb — nearest is Colonel Light Gardens Primary School (0.46 km)

Colonel Light Gardens