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McLaren Flat
Ranked #3 of 274 Adelaide suburbs for safety. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.
McLaren Flat suburb profile: score breakdown
McLaren Flat crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers
| Population | 1,625 |
| Area | 27.75 km² |
| Postcode | 5171 |
| Median household income | $2,129/wk |
| Median rent | $350/wk |
| Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026) | $935,000 (low volume: 9 sales; down 7.4% YoY) |
| Crime rate | 5.5 incidents per 1,000 people |
| Parks | 1 (12.53 ha per 1,000 people) |
| Schools (government data) | 1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 3.44 km, secondary 9.61 km |
| Families score | 57/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10) |
| Within 400m of a park | 10.6% of the suburb |
| Cafés | 0 |
| Gyms & sport venues | 11 |
| Public transport stops | 6 (6 bus stops) |
| Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning) | 0 schools in the suburb — nearest is McLaren Vale Primary School (7.44 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 McLaren Flat
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 McLaren Flat — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.
Common questions about McLaren Flat
What is the postcode for McLaren Flat?
The postcode for McLaren Flat, Adelaide is 5171.
Is McLaren Flat a good suburb?
There is no single invented "overall" score here -- McLaren Flat is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is safety, ranking #3 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 McLaren Flat safe?
Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Adelaide, scoring 99/100 for safety and ranking #3 of 274 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 6 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 McLaren Flat good for families?
Mixed, and the weak spot is parks. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 99/100, parks 16/100 and green space 46/100, with a median age of 40. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 3.4 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 McLaren Flat expensive to live in?
The median house sale price was $935,000 in Apr–Jun 2026 (SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales), down 7.4% YoY. Median rent is $350 a week, and household income ranks #30 of 274 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 92/100 for value.
Does McLaren Flat have good public transport?
It scores 1/100 for transit, #271 of 274 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.
Are there parks in McLaren Flat?
11% of the suburb is within walking distance of a park, at 12.5 hectares per 1,000 residents — 46/100 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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