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Prospect Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Population | 14,584 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5082 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 5 km2 (1.9 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | City of Prospect | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | |||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Adelaide | ||||||||||||||
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Prospect is the seat of the City of Prospect and an inner northern suburb of greater Adelaide. It is located 5 km (3.1 mi) north of Adelaide's centre.
Surrounding suburbs include Kilburn, Fitzroy, Medindie and Devon Park. The suburb has boundaries of Main North Road to the East; Carter Street, Audley Avenue and Avenue Road to the South; The Gawler railway line to the west, and a line 400m north of Regency Road (Livingstone Avenue, Angwin Avenue and Henrietta Street) to the north.
Prospect comprises a large majority of the land area (about five-sevenths, or 71%) of the City of Prospect council area.
The seat was initially founded by Conrad Martens and Oliver Glasson, following Martens' venture as a landscape artist within the state.[1]