🏙 Colonel Light Gardens · Adelaide SA

🎯 Price model — what the model says a typical home here achieves at auction

Modelled from 146,492 Australian auction sales (2021–2026). Adelaide cells run on the base model (suburb prior + configuration + time) without the Sydney-only land/school/transport features — ranges are honest about the wider uncertainty. Estimates from comparable auction results — not valuations or financial advice.

🧾 Recent comparable sales — the real auction results behind the estimates

Houses

Recent sold auction results in Colonel Light Gardens from the price model's training set (published Domain results). A sample, not every sale.

💰 What Colonel Light Gardens actually sold for — published auction results, quarter by quarter

Quarterly medians of real published auction results (sold outcomes only). Historical results — not a prediction, valuation or financial advice.

🛡 Crime — recorded criminal incidents, year ending March 2026

Index 12 — below the Greater Adelaide average (50 = average) · 13.9 key incidents per 1,000 residents · year-on-year -12%

Most recorded: Damage or destroy property (10) · Theft from a person (8) · SCT - Non Residence (5)

Key offences: homicide, assault, robbery, property damage, serious criminal trespass (burglary), theft (SAPOL offence level 2; sexual offences unlocatable upstream). Rates are per RESIDENT — suburbs with heavy visitor/entertainment traffic (CBD, nightlife strips) read high on this basis. Source: South Australia Police recorded crime (Data.SA, CC BY 4.0), year ending March 2026; populations ABS Census 2021 (SAL). Sexual offences are published without location and cannot appear in suburb counts..

🎓 Schools in Colonel Light Gardens — located in the suburb (ACARA 2025)

In-suburb enrolments 860 · 5-year trend -9.5% (declining) — total across the schools below; family demand signal, openings/closures counted

Schools whose ADDRESS is in Colonel Light Gardens — residents are often zoned to schools in neighbouring suburbs too; check the actual zone for any address at education.sa.gov.au (find a school zone). ICSEA is the socio-educational advantage of a school's community (national average ~1000) — a demographic measure, not a quality or results score.

🚆 Getting to the CBD — peak, from the suburb centre

About ~45 min door-to-CBD: 24 min walk to Mitcham (train) + ~6 min typical peak wait + 15 min scheduled ride.

Adelaide Metro GTFS (open data) — scheduled weekday services, rail family only (buses excluded); walk = suburb centre to nearest station, crow-flies ×1.3 at 80 m/min; wait = half AM-peak headway capped at 6 min; ride = median scheduled time to the CBD hub. Estimates for the suburb CENTRE — your block differs.

📦 Stock history — homes listed for sale in Colonel Light Gardens, archived Domain pages

8 monthly points from archived Domain search pages, 2017-02-19 → 2026-05-21 (Domain-only — systematically lower than the total market; archive coverage has gaps and they stay visible as gaps). Historical record, not a live count — live Melbourne tracking is on the roadmap.

🔨 Auction market pace — Adelaide weekly clearance

Benchmark series (SQM Research): week to 2026-08-15 — 47.2% of 53 scheduled auctions. Our own tracking (withdrawn counted): week to 2026-08-15 — 45% of 58 scheduled. Lower clearance generally means more room for buyers to negotiate.

Suburb breakdown — trailing 8 weeks, our tracking, withdrawn counted