Council intelligence · Comparable South Australian cohort
Town of Gawler
27,182 residents · area IRSAD decile 4/10 · Mayor Karen Redman
Draft intelligence profileDRMC confidence: MEDIUMCaptured: 12/06/2026
Receptivity52Capacity to receive evidence and adapt
Conflict risk39Civic friction signal; lower is not automatically better
Financial strength72Provisional interpretation of public financial evidence
Evidence readiness70Completeness of the current evidence base
Comparable cohort benchmark
How does Town of Gawler compare?
Benchmark: median of the 13 metropolitan Adelaide councils with the same measure and source period.
Median weekly rent13-council median: $325
Town of Gawler
$285$40 below median
Council valueCohort median
Source: ABS Census 2021 G02. This common benchmark uses 2021 Census rent; the separate housing panel shows the newer SA rental snapshot. Missing values are excluded; no missing value is treated as zero.
Community profile ABS open data
Population (2024)27,182
Median age (2021)41 years
Area IRSAD decile (2021)4 / 10
Median weekly rent (2021)$285
Median household income (2021)$1,324/week
Unemployment rate (2021)5.9%
Median mortgage (2021)$1,350/month
Average household size (2021)2.3 people
SEIFA IRSAD score (2021)931
Area-level figures describe the LGA and must not be used to make assumptions about an individual resident.
Financial position Latest structured evidence
Recent council decisions 3 tracked
- 1 Dec 2025Kudla Growth Area rezoning: around 16,000 new homes proposed across 2,480 hectares spanning Gawler and Playford (SA Government, December 2025) ↗dhud.sa.gov.au · provisional
- 1 Dec 2025Northern Parklands, a new railway station and a village precinct proposed for the Kudla growth corridor ↗premier.sa.gov.au · provisional
- 2025-2026Kudla Growth Area Structure Plan: community consultation underway ↗yourvoice.gawler.sa.gov.au · provisional
DRMC analytical layers
- Historical Memory
- 50
- Acute Stress
- 45
- Ideology / Worldview
- 50
- Trust / Legitimacy
- 77
- Media / Narrative
- 50
- Material Pressure
- 59
- Future Imaginaries
- 55
- Conflict Mobilisation
- 35
Eight analytical layers · confidence MEDIUM. These are provisional civic signals, not the nineteen configurable DRMC domains and not a ranking of people.
Housing and affordability SA Housing Authority
$549Rent indicator / weekPostcode-weighted · 2026-03
+93%Indicative changeCompared with 2021 Census median
200Active bondsRental market records
470Public housing399 per 10,000 population
4,985Housing stressLower-income households · 2018
The current rent indicator is a count-weighted average of postcode median rents, not a newly calculated household-level LGA median. The 2018 stress figure and 2021 public-housing data are retained with their dates.
Service and regulatory signals Postcode-linked records
4Aged care servicesAged care services
5NDIS complianceNDIS Commission compliance actions
25Childcare servicesApproved education & care services
Aged care and childcare are service counts. The NDIS figure is a count of Commission compliance actions, not provider supply, market capacity or participant outcomes. Records are assigned by postcode centroid and may cross council boundaries.
View source register
- NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission (via data.sa.gov.au), 4 June 2026 ↗
- AIHW GEN — Aged Care Service List (SA), 30 June 2025 · URL pending verification
- ACECQA National Registers — approved education and care services (SA) ↗
Evidence base
12Documents
0Verified claims
3Claims requiring review
81Structured metrics
The evidence register contains 3 total source-verification records and 3 tracked decision signals. Counts do not imply quality or completeness.
Core public sources