Suburb profile

Penfield SA 5121

Penfield is located in the Adelaide North region of South Australia, postcode 5121. It has 683 properties across 27 streets. Explore every street in Penfield, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Penfield

Penfield, SA 5121, sits in the Adelaide North region and neighbours Direk, Edinburgh, Edinburgh North and Macdonald Park. Its 27 streets hold 683 properties, 442 of them houses and 241 units.

Census figures are for Virginia - Waterloo Corner, which has 5,693 residents, a median age of 38 and an average household of 2.5 people. Median household income is $1,387 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,600 a month and the median rent $300 a week. Of 2,069 dwellings, 1,921 were separate houses, 40 semi-detached and 86 other; 839 were owned outright, 873 owned with a mortgage and 277 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Penfield

  • 5,693Peoplelive in the area
  • 38Median ageyears
  • $1,387Median household incomea week
  • $300Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,921
  • Townhouses and semis40
  • Other86

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,600a month
  • Household size2.5people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 839Owned with a mortgage 873Rented 277Other 80

For sale and rent in Penfield

Andrew FarnworthAndrew Farnworth

$299,000-$328,000

139/50 Andrews Road, Penfield SA 5121

2 bedrooms 1 bathroom 3 car spaces House

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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.