Suburb profile

Cavan SA 5094

Cavan is located in the Adelaide North region of South Australia, postcode 5094. It has 403 properties across 20 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Cavan, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Cavan

Cavan, SA 5094, sits in the Adelaide North region and neighbours Pooraka, Dry Creek, Mawson Lakes and Gepps Cross. Its 20 streets hold 403 properties, 305 of them houses and 98 units.

Census figures are for the Pooraka - Cavan area. There were 8,080 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income was $1,263 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,335 a month and the median rent $300 a week. Of 3,046 dwellings, 2,610 were separate houses, 384 semi-detached and 44 flats; 976 were owned outright, 1,069 owned with a mortgage and 910 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Cavan

  • 8,080Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $1,263Median household incomea week
  • $300Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses2,610
  • Townhouses and semis384
  • Flats and apartments44

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,335a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 976Owned with a mortgage 1,069Rented 910Other 91

Streets in Cavan

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.