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Toorak Gardens

Ranked #4 of 274 Adelaide suburbs for value. Every number below comes from open data — official crime statistics, ABS census and GPS activity traces — not opinion.

By BestSuburbs research · Updated October 2026 · Adelaide
Toorak Gardens suburb score card: safety, activity, value and other scores, Adelaide
Value99#4 of 274
Wealth94#18 of 274
Active86#20 of 274
Transit74#73 of 274

Toorak Gardens suburb profile: score breakdown

Active
86
#20 of 274
Safety
71
#81 of 274
Wealth
94
#18 of 274
Value
99
#4 of 274
Parks
4
#274 of 274
Cafés
28
#274 of 274
Transit
74
#73 of 274
Green space
36
#190 of 274
Active & healthy
58
#84 of 274
Schools nearby (OSM)
66
#92 of 274

Toorak Gardens crime rate, rent, prices and other numbers

Population2,604
Area1.0 km²
Postcode5065
Median household income$2,286/wk
Median rent$320/wk
Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026)$3,470,000 (low volume: 3 sales; up 19.7% YoY)
Crime rate30.3 incidents per 1,000 people
Schools (government data)1 — 1 primary, 0 secondary; nearest primary 0.59 km, secondary 0.9 km
Families score57/100 (safety 30 · schools 25 · parks per 1,000 15 · kinders 10 · price-for-size 10 · transit 10)
Within 400m of a park72.7% of the suburb
Cafés0
Gyms & sport venues50
Public transport stops23 (23 bus stops)
Schools nearby (OSM, not catchment zoning)1 school in the suburb

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 Toorak Gardens

Population
2,604
Median age
47 years
Median household income
$2,286/wk
Median rent
$320/wk
Median house price (Apr–Jun 2026)
$3,470,000

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 Toorak Gardens — the fields above are everything the census data behind this site currently carries.

Common questions about Toorak Gardens

What is the postcode for Toorak Gardens?

The postcode for Toorak Gardens, Adelaide is 5065.

Is Toorak Gardens a good suburb?

There is no single invented "overall" score here -- Toorak Gardens is measured on 10 separate categories rather than blended into one number. Its strongest is value, ranking #4 of 274 Adelaide suburbs, and it ranks in the top half of Adelaide for 7 of the 10 categories measured here. The full breakdown is above.

Is Toorak Gardens safe?

Yes — it is one of the safer parts of Adelaide, scoring 71/100 for safety and ranking #81 of 274 suburbs. Recorded offences run at 30 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 Toorak Gardens good for families?

Mixed, and the weak spot is parks. Here are the family measures we can compute — safety 71/100, parks 4/100 and green space 36/100, with a median age of 47. It has 1 school in the suburb, with the nearest primary 0.6 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 Toorak Gardens expensive to live in?

The median house sale price was $3,470,000 in Apr–Jun 2026 (SA Government Metropolitan Median House Sales), up 19.7% YoY. Median rent is $320 a week, and household income ranks #18 of 274 in Adelaide. Against what the suburb offers, it scores 99/100 for value.

Does Toorak Gardens have good public transport?

It scores 74/100 for transit, #73 of 274 in Adelaide. That measures train, tram and bus access within the suburb boundary, weighted by mode.

Are there parks in Toorak Gardens?

73% 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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