11 Facts About North Adelaide

North Adelaide is a predominantly residential precinct and suburb of the City of Adelaide in South Australia, situated north of the River Torrens and within the Adelaide Park Lands.

North Adelaide was the birthplace of William Lawrence Bragg, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1915.

North Adelaide is surrounded by parklands, with public gardens between the grids.

The North Adelaide Parklands contain gardens, many sports fields, a golf course, horse agistment paddocks and some areas sympathetic with the native environment.

Six of the Upper North Adelaide pubs are on O'Connell Street: the Caledonian, the Royal Oak, The O Hotel, the Cambridge, the Oxford and The Archer.

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Lower North Adelaide contains the Kentish Arms, established in the 1840s by John Cocker and which was a centre of the early growth of cricket in the city, The Lion hotel, the Lord Melbourne, and the British.

Many residential colleges affiliated with the University of Adelaide are in North Adelaide, including Aquinas College, Lincoln College, St Ann's College, St Mark's College, Kathleen Lumley College and Australian Lutheran College, the Lutheran tertiary institution and seminary.

North Adelaide is well served by road, although in peak hour some roads, particularly O'Connell Street and Melbourne Street, are quite congested.

Since 27 January 2014 a free loop bus operated jointly between the Adelaide City Council and the state government circulates through Adelaide and North Adelaide replacing a community bus operated by the Adelaide City Council.

North Adelaide is part of the state electoral district of Adelaide, which has been held since 2022 by Labor MP Lucy Hood.

In federal politics, the suburb is part of the division of North Adelaide, and has been represented since 2004 by a Labor MP, since 2019 being Steve Georganas.