Walkley Heights, South Australia

Walkley Heights
AdelaideSouth Australia
Walkley Heights reserve
Population3,513 (SAL 2021)[1]
Established1995
Postcode(s)5098
LGA(s)
State electorate(s)Florey
Federal division(s)Makin
Suburbs around Walkley Heights:
Ingle Farm Para Vista
Pooraka Walkley Heights Valley View
Northfield Oakden Gilles Plains

Walkley Heights is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. The suburb is located on land formerly comprising the prison farm for Yatala Labour Prison, and includes fifty-five hectares of land formerly owned by R. M. Williams which was compulsorily acquired during the time of former State Premier Sir Thomas Playford.[2] The suburb (and one adjacent main road) is named after John Walkley, an early pioneer in South Australia[3]

The suburb had a population, in 2001, of only 713[4] increasing to 3,497 by 2016.

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Walkley Heights (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Postcards – Dry Creek – Linear Park
  3. ^ www.placenames.sa.gov.au Government of South Australia, Land Services Group
  4. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics 2001 Census of Population and Housing

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