Council intelligence · Comparable South Australian cohort
City of Holdfast Bay
39,308 residents · area IRSAD decile 9/10 · Mayor Amanda Wilson
Draft intelligence profileDRMC confidence: HIGHCaptured: 12/06/2026
Receptivity50Capacity to receive evidence and adapt
Conflict risk38Civic friction signal; lower is not automatically better
Financial strength80Provisional interpretation of public financial evidence
Evidence readiness86Completeness of the current evidence base
Comparable cohort benchmark
How does City of Holdfast Bay compare?
Benchmark: median of the 13 metropolitan Adelaide councils with the same measure and source period.
Median weekly rent13-council median: $325
City of Holdfast Bay
$340$15 above 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)39,308
Median age (2021)48 years
Area IRSAD decile (2021)9 / 10
Median weekly rent (2021)$340
Median household income (2021)$1,604/week
Unemployment rate (2021)3.8%
Median mortgage (2021)$1,950/month
Average household size (2021)2.2 people
SEIFA IRSAD score (2021)1,044
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 0 tracked
Decision tracking is not yet populated for this council. Meeting-minutes ingestion remains pending.
DRMC analytical layers
- Historical Memory
- 50
- Acute Stress
- 42
- Ideology / Worldview
- 50
- Trust / Legitimacy
- 73
- Media / Narrative
- 50
- Material Pressure
- 51
- Future Imaginaries
- 60
- Conflict Mobilisation
- 35
Eight analytical layers · confidence HIGH. These are provisional civic signals, not the nineteen configurable DRMC domains and not a ranking of people.
Housing and affordability SA Housing Authority
$615Rent indicator / weekPostcode-weighted · 2026-03
+81%Indicative changeCompared with 2021 Census median
340Active bondsRental market records
255Public housing139 per 10,000 population
7,065Housing 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
10Aged care servicesAged care services
4NDIS 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
28Documents
16Verified claims
20Claims requiring review
125Structured metrics
The evidence register contains 36 total source-verification records and 0 tracked decision signals. Counts do not imply quality or completeness.
Core public sources