Council intelligence · Comparable South Australian cohort
City of Onkaparinga
182,821 residents · area IRSAD decile 5/10 · Mayor Moira Were
Draft intelligence profileDRMC confidence: HIGHCaptured: 12/06/2026
Receptivity53Capacity to receive evidence and adapt
Conflict risk43Civic friction signal; lower is not automatically better
Financial strength62Provisional interpretation of public financial evidence
Evidence readiness87Completeness of the current evidence base
Comparable cohort benchmark
How does City of Onkaparinga compare?
Benchmark: median of the 13 metropolitan Adelaide councils with the same measure and source period.
Median weekly rent13-council median: $325
City of Onkaparinga
$312$13 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)182,821
Median age (2021)41 years
Area IRSAD decile (2021)5 / 10
Median weekly rent (2021)$312
Median household income (2021)$1,410/week
Unemployment rate (2021)5.6%
Median mortgage (2021)$1,449/month
Average household size (2021)2.4 people
SEIFA IRSAD score (2021)951
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 64 tracked
- 1 Nov 2025Mayor Moira Were: climate leadership advocacy at global summits in Brazil ↗onkaparinganow.com · verified
- 1 Feb 2026Harmful algal bloom response, ongoing since March 2025; more than $160 million committed by State and Federal governments ↗algalbloom.sa.gov.au · verified
- 28 Apr 2026Audit & Risk Committee flags concern about council financial position — context for 2026-27 budget ↗Minutes — Council Meeting 28 April 2026 · verified
- 28 Apr 2026Affordable Housing Strategy 2025-28 APPROVED — consultation outcomes noted, strategy adopted ↗Minutes — Council Meeting 28 April 2026 · verified
- 28 Apr 202612.1 NOTICE OF MOTION – CR THEMELIOTIS – HIGHER STANDARDS FOR ELECTED MEMBERS ↗City of Onkaparinga — Council meeting 2026-04-28 (Minutes) · verified
- 28 Apr 20269.1 Notice of Motion – Tim O’Loughlin – Recording of Audit and Risk Committee ↗City of Onkaparinga — Council meeting 2026-04-28 (Minutes) · verified
- 28 Apr 2026Council endorses federal submission on Intergenerational Housing — active advocacy at federal level ↗Minutes — Council Meeting 28 April 2026 · verified
- 28 Apr 2026Higher standards for elected members — police checks, WWCC — advocacy to Minister for Local Government CARRIED ↗Minutes — Council Meeting 28 April 2026 · verified
DRMC analytical layers
- Historical Memory
- 50
- Acute Stress
- 54
- Ideology / Worldview
- 50
- Trust / Legitimacy
- 66
- Media / Narrative
- 50
- Material Pressure
- 67
- Future Imaginaries
- 51
- 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
$599Rent indicator / weekPostcode-weighted · 2026-03
+92%Indicative changeCompared with 2021 Census median
895Active bondsRental market records
3,070Public housing414 per 10,000 population
33,588Housing 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
19Aged care servicesAged care services
15NDIS complianceNDIS Commission compliance actions
132Childcare 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
86Documents
183Verified claims
0Claims requiring review
183Structured metrics
The evidence register contains 183 total source-verification records and 64 tracked decision signals. Counts do not imply quality or completeness.
Core public sources