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Magill
Ranked #39 of 274 Adelaide suburbs for cafés. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
Magill suburb profile: score breakdown
Magill crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 9,693 |
| Area | 3.0 km² |
| Postcode | 5072 |
| Median household income | $1,616/wk |
| Median rent | $341/wk |
| Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026) | $1,325,000 (35 sales this quarter; down 0.2% YoY) |
| Crime rate | 27.4 incidents per 1,000 people |
| Parks | 7 (0.3 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 2 — 1 primary, 1 secondary; nearest primary 0.16 km, secondary 0.76 km |
| Families score | 63/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 74.0% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 5 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 39 |
| Public transport stops | 45 (45 bus stops) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 1 school in the suburb, plus 1 kindergarten — nearest is Magill School (0.64 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 Magill
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 Magill — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about Magill
What is the postcode for Magill?
The postcode for Magill, Adelaide is 5072.
Is Magill a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Magill is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is cafés, ranking #39 of 274 Adelaide suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Adelaide for 5 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.
Is Magill safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Adelaide, scoring 76/100 for safety and ranking #65 of 274 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 27 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 Magill good for families?
It rates about average on the family measures we can compute — safety 76/100, parks 36/100 and green space 36/100, with a median age of 40. It has 2 schools in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.2 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 Magill expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $1,325,000 in Apr–Jun 2026 (SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales), down 0.2% YoY. Median rent is $341 a week, and household income ranks #134 of 274 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 42/100 for value.
Does Magill have good public transport?
It scores 40/100 for transit, #164 of 274 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in Magill?
74% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 0.3 hectares per 1,000 residents — 36/100 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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