Council intelligence · Comparable South Australian cohort
City of Port Adelaide Enfield
141,042 residents · area IRSAD decile 6/10 · Mayor Mayor Claire Boan
Draft intelligence profileDRMC confidence: HIGHCaptured: 12/06/2026
Receptivity52Capacity to receive evidence and adapt
Conflict risk53Civic friction signal; lower is not automatically better
Financial strength70Provisional interpretation of public financial evidence
Evidence readiness81Completeness of the current evidence base
Comparable cohort benchmark
How does City of Port Adelaide Enfield compare?
Benchmark: median of the 13 metropolitan Adelaide councils with the same measure and source period.
Median weekly rent13-council median: $325
City of Port Adelaide Enfield
$300$25 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)141,042
Median age (2021)37 years
Area IRSAD decile (2021)6 / 10
Median weekly rent (2021)$300
Median household income (2021)$1,466/week
Unemployment rate (2021)6.3%
Median mortgage (2021)$1,600/month
Average household size (2021)2.4 people
SEIFA IRSAD score (2021)953
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
- 74
- Media / Narrative
- 50
- Material Pressure
- 52
- Future Imaginaries
- 59
- Conflict Mobilisation
- 60
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
$598Rent indicator / weekPostcode-weighted · 2026-03
+99%Indicative changeCompared with 2021 Census median
890Active bondsRental market records
4,085Public housing726 per 10,000 population
25,597Housing 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
22Aged care servicesAged care services
30NDIS complianceNDIS Commission compliance actions
68Childcare 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
106Documents
12Verified claims
40Claims requiring review
442Structured metrics
The evidence register contains 52 total source-verification records and 0 tracked decision signals. Counts do not imply quality or completeness.
Core public sources