Ranked #135 of 299 Adelaide suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
| Population | 1,455 |
| Area | 0.32 km² |
| Median household income | $1,310/wk |
| Median rent | $300/wk |
| Crime rate | 44.0 incidents per 1,000 people |
| Within 400m of a park | 69.1% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 2 |
Source: ABS Census 2021. We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Cowandilla — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
It is around the middle of the pack for Adelaide, scoring 55/100 for safety and ranking #135 of 299 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 44 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.
Mixed, and the weak spot is parks and green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 55/100, parks 5/100 and green space 24/100, with a median age of 41. We do not hold school catchment data, so this does not account for schools — see our Adelaide families ranking for the full method.
Median rent is $300 a week, and household income ranks #248 of 299 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 20/100 for value.
It scores 41/100 for transit, #134 of 299 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
69% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park — 24/100 for green space.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Adelaide: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated September 2026. Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
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