Suburb profile

Gawler West SA 5118

Gawler West is located in the Adelaide North region of South Australia, postcode 5118. It has 622 properties across 28 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Gawler West, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Gawler West

Gawler West, SA 5118, sits in the Adelaide North region and neighbours Gawler South, Reid, Willaston and Evanston. Its 28 streets hold 622 properties, 483 of them houses and 139 units.

Census figures are for the Gawler - South area, which covers the suburb. At the 2021 Census the area had 21,662 residents, a median age of 42 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $1,336 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,400 a month and the median rent $285 a week. Of 8,669 dwellings, 6,980 were separate houses, 1,477 semi-detached, 120 flats and 48 other. 2,558 were owned outright, 3,344 owned with a mortgage and 2,396 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Gawler West

  • 21,662Peoplelive in the area
  • 42Median ageyears
  • $1,336Median household incomea week
  • $285Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses6,980
  • Townhouses and semis1,477
  • Flats and apartments120
  • Other48

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,400a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 2,558Owned with a mortgage 3,344Rented 2,396Other 371

Streets in Gawler West

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.