At the 2021 Census, a week's rent in Greater Adelaide came to a median of $320, above the $300 across South Australia.
Rented through a real estate agent 15
Rented from another landlord 13
Owned or being paid off 68
Other or not stated 4
Greater Adelaide's households as 100 homes, from the 2021 Census count of households by tenure and landlord. Each kind is rounded so the 100 add up, so a share in the tiles below can differ from the drawing by one.
Households renting28%SA 28%
Of renters, through an agent53%SA 51%
Median rent$320 a weekSA $300
Rent as a share of household income
The median weekly rent in Greater Adelaide equalled 21% of the median weekly income of all its households, renters or not, the same share as across the state. This page works that share out from the two medians; it is not a Census figure, and not what renters themselves pay. The income behind it was $1,548 a week.
Flats, townhouses and the people in them
Greater Adelaide's occupied homes included 16% that were townhouses, terraces or semi-detached houses, and 8% that were flats or apartments. On Census night, 7% of private dwellings stood unoccupied, below the state's 11%. The median age of its 1,387,290 people was 39 years, under South Australia's 41, and they lived 2.5 to an average household.