City of Burnside South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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• Density | 1,672/km2 (4,330/sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Established | 1856 | ||||||||||||||
Area | 27.53 km2 (10.6 sq mi) | ||||||||||||||
Mayor | Anne Monceaux | ||||||||||||||
Council seat | Tusmore | ||||||||||||||
Region | Eastern Adelaide[1] | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Adelaide, Bragg, Dunstan, Morialta, Hartley, Heysen | ||||||||||||||
Federal division(s) | Adelaide, Sturt | ||||||||||||||
Website | City of Burnside | ||||||||||||||
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The City of Burnside is a local government area in the South Australian city of Adelaide stretching from the Adelaide Parklands into the Adelaide foothills with an area of 2,753 hectares (6,800 acres). It was founded in August 1856 as the District Council of Burnside, the name of a property of an early settler, and was classed as a city in 1943. The LGA is bounded by Adelaide, Adelaide Hills Council, Campbelltown, Mitcham, Norwood Payneham and St Peters and Unley.
A primarily residential upper middle class area, Burnside has little to no industrial activity and a small commercial sector. Over 257 hectares (640 acres) of its area is dedicated to Parks and Reserves, the result being one of the greenest areas in Adelaide.[citation needed]
It was one of the first areas outside of Adelaide to be settled, with the early villages of Magill, Burnside, Beaumont and Glen Osmond now inner suburbs.
At the 2021 census, City of Burnside was considered the most relatively socio-economically advantaged LGA in South Australia, and the suburb of Skye the third most advantaged locality in the state (behind nearby Springfield and Mount George), according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics' SEIFA indexes.[2]