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Evanston
South Australia · Census 2021
Evanston is a leafy residential suburb of Gawler.
Median house price
Rolling median of settled transfers, state Valuer-General open data (CC BY 4.0). South Australia average of suburb medians: $1.2M.
How it compares
Percentiles rank this suburb against South Australia suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. The state and national figures are the average of the latest suburb medians in that area, not a transaction-weighted median.
People & housing
Local amenities
Grocery mix: 1 Aldi. Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).
Culture & community
- Dominant religion
- No religion · 55%
- Top language at home
- Filipino · 1%
- No religion
- 55%
- Born overseas
- 17%
- English only at home
- 95%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 1 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 2 / 1
- Nearest secondary
- 0.4 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Gawler
- Population / area
- 25,129 · 41 km²
- Density
- 611/km²
- Federal grants
- $3.09M/yr · $123/resident
Council boundary: ABS ASGS LGA 2024. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. All CC BY 4.0.
Representation
- Federal division
- Spence
- Federal MP
- Matt Burnell (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 65% 2PP
- State electorate
- Light
- State MP
- Tony Piccolo (ALP)
Comparable suburbs
Closest by median house price across SA.
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); South Australia Valuer-General settled transfers (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.