| City of Burnside South Australia | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | |||||||||||||||
| Population | 46,030 (LGA 2021)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| • 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[2] | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Adelaide, Bragg, Dunstan, Morialta, Hartley, Heysen | ||||||||||||||
| Federal division(s) | Adelaide, Sturt | ||||||||||||||
 | |||||||||||||||
| Website | City of Burnside | ||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||
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.[3]
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Burnside (Local Government Area)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
- ^ "Eastern Adelaide SA Government region" (PDF). The Government of South Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 March 2019. Retrieved 17 April 2017.
- ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 April 2023). "Census of Population and Housing: Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA), Australia - 2021". Retrieved 3 June 2024. Rankings according to the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Advantage and Disadvantage (IRSAD).
