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Croydon Park
Ranked #97 of 274 Adelaide suburbs for transit. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Croydon Park suburb profile: score breakdown
Croydon Park crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 4,230 |
| Area | 1.5 km² |
| Postcode | 5008 |
| Median household income | $1,421/wk |
| Median rent | $320/wk |
| Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026) | $1,125,000 (11 sales this quarter; up 30.4% YoY) |
| Crime rate | 79.9 incidents per 1,000 people |
| Parks | 3 (0.22 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 0 — 0 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.68 km, secondary 2.62 km |
| Families score | 41/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 37.2% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 2 |
| Public transport stops | 30 (30 bus stops) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is St Margaret Mary's Catholic Church and School (0.47 km) |
Sale prices: SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales, April–June 2026 quarter (2Q 2026) — © Government of South Australia (Land Services SA), Metropolitan Median House Sales, CC BY 4.0. Quarterly median house sale price per suburb, metropolitan Adelaide. Units are not in this dataset. Figures marked as low-volume rest on fewer than 10 sales that quarter.
Who lives in Croydon Park
Source: ABS Census 2021; sale prices SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales, April–June 2026 quarter (2Q 2026). We do not hold a suburb-level renter/owner split, families-with-children rate, born-overseas rate or dwelling-type breakdown for Croydon Park — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Croydon Park
What is the postcode for Croydon Park?
The postcode for Croydon Park, Adelaide is 5008.
Is Croydon Park a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Croydon Park is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is transit, ranking #97 of 274 Adelaide suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Adelaide for 1 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Croydon Park safe?
It is on the less safe side of Adelaide, scoring 24/100 for safety and ranking #208 of 274 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 80 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.
Is Croydon Park good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is safety and green space. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 24/100, parks 32/100 and green space 19/100, with a median age of 35. It has 0 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.7 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.
Is Croydon Park expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,125,000 in Apr–Jun 2026 (SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales), up 30.4% YoY. Median rent is $320 a week, and household income ranks #191 of 274 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 24/100 for value.
Does Croydon Park have good public transport?
It scores 64/100 for transit, #97 of 274 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Croydon Park?
37% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.2 hectares per 1,000 residents — 19/100 for green space.
Scores are percentiles against every other suburb in Adelaide: 100 is the
best in the city, 50 is mid-table. Updated October 2026 (last updated 2026-10-17). Sources: open GPS activity traces,
official crime statistics, ABS census, OpenStreetMap.
About this data: every number on this page is computed from public sources — it is not an
opinion or a sponsored placement. See how we rank suburbs
for the full method.
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