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A snapshot of the Council
The City of Port Adelaide Enfield is a large and highly diverse
metropolitan Adelaide Council.
The council area is located in the north-western suburbs of
Adelaide, about eight kilometres from the Adelaide CBD and is
bounded in the west by the coastline of Gulf St Vincent, and in
the east by the River Torrens and the foothills of the Mt Lofty
Ranges - covering an area of 97 kms
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.The City accommodates
some of the State’s finest historical buildings and landmarks,
together with a wealth of unique natural ecosystems, and
cultural and recreational facilities. The City also includes a
significant proportion of the State’s manufacturing sector,
major industrial and power facilities, the main shipping port of
Adelaide, and associated logistics and distribution infrastructure.
The traditional owners of the land are the Kaurna Meyunna
people of the Adelaide Plains - and their cultural heritage,
beliefs and relationship with the land are of continuing
importance to the cultural and community life of the area.
Council develops, manages, and maintains a huge range of
facilities used for recreation and sport by people of all ages
– including 40 ovals, 78 tennis and netball courts, three golf
courses, 50 playgrounds, over 170ha of reserves and 5.8km of
the Torrens Linear Park recreation space – along with the City’s
6.2km of coastline and foreshore.
The City accommodates 112,508 people and 8,127 businesses
(as at Census 2011).The City of Port Adelaide Enfield is the
third largest population of any local government area in South
Australia.The City’s population has been steadily growing
during the last decade.The number of people living within the
Council area has increased by almost 17,000 (17%) from 2001,
and is projected to grow by a further 6.9% by 2016.
The population density in residential areas is increasing in
those neighbourhoods that have been designated by the State
Government via its 30Year Strategy for Greater Adelaide
as future higher density areas, and also via ‘infill’ residential
developments across the middle ring suburbs.The highest
population densities are found along the coast, in the suburbs
of Woodville Gardens, Mansfield Park and Ferryden Park which
have recently undergone regeneration programs, and in the
newly developed suburbs of Northgate, Oakden and New
Port where higher density housing has been promoted.
At the 2011 Census of Population and Housing, the median
age of residents in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield was
37 years, a slight lowering from 38 years of age at the 2006
Census. In comparison, the median age of Greater Adelaide
increased in the same period of time from 38 to 39 years
of age.
Port Adelaide Enfield has experienced a large increase
in overseas born residents, increasing from 24.9% of its
population in 2001 to 30.4% in 2011.This has been due to
ongoing migration to the area, and focused humanitarian
refugee settlement programs. A culturally and linguistically
diverse region,Western Adelaide has high numbers of
speakers of a range of languages when compared with Greater
metropolitan Adelaide. The top ten languages spoken in the
region - Greek, Italian,Vietnamese, Chinese, Serbian, Arabic,
Polish, Punjabi,Tagalog and Croatian – are spoken by a higher
proportion of the population inWestern Adelaide than across
Greater Adelaide.Within the region, Port Adelaide Enfield has
a particularly high number of Vietnamese and Chinese speakers.
Between the 2006 and 2011 Census there was also significant
growth of 2,732 and 1,707 persons respectively nominating
their ancestry as from India and China.
1.0 INTRODUCTION