| Walkley Heights Adelaide, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 Walkley Heights reserve | |||||||||||||||
| Population | 3,513 (SAL 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1995 | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5098 | ||||||||||||||
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| State electorate(s) | Florey | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Makin | ||||||||||||||
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Walkley Heights is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford.[2] The suburb (and one adjacent main road) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia[3]
The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713[4] increasing to 3,497 by 2016.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Walkley Heights (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ Postcards – Dry Creek – Linear Park
- ^ www.placenames.sa.gov.au Government of South Australia, Land Services Group
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census of Population and Housing
