Suburb profile
Gawler River SA 5118
Gawler River is located in the Adelaide North region of South Australia, postcode 5118. It has 56 properties across 10 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Gawler River, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Gawler River
Gawler River, SA 5118, sits in the Adelaide North region and neighbours Angle Vale, Buchfelde, Hillier and Lewiston. Its 10 streets hold 56 properties, all of them houses.
Census figures are for the area Gawler - North, which covers the whole of the suburb. At the census the area had 9,545 residents, a median age of 40 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,770 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,517 a month and the median rent $310 a week. Of 3,404 dwellings, 3,184 were separate houses, 202 semi-detached and 9 flats; 1,100 were owned outright, 1,687 owned with a mortgage and 542 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Gawler River
- 9,545Peoplelive in the area
- 40Median ageyears
- $1,770Median household incomea week
- $310Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses3,184
- Townhouses and semis202
- Flats and apartments9
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,517a month
- Household size2.7people on average
How homes are held
Streets in Gawler River
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.