Mawson Lakes sits roughly 12 km north of Adelaide's CBD in postcode 5095, alongside Pooraka. The reading is SEIFA decile 6 at IRSAD 982, in the 62nd state percentile within South Australia.
ABS 2021 IRSAD release. Score 982 (national mean = 1000).
Decile 6 is a mid-band reading. The 982 IRSAD score sits just below the national mean, and the 62nd state percentile places Mawson Lakes comfortably above the broader northern-Adelaide average. Mawson Lakes is one of South Australia's more visible master-planned-community examples, with the University of South Australia campus, the Technology Park employment precinct, and the lake-and-canals residential layout all inside the postcode. PropertyRanker uses SEIFA as a primary signal for economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. A decile 6 reading places Mawson Lakes in mid-band territory, with no strong tailwind or headwind on those three criteria. The lift in 5095 sits outside the SEIFA window. The education-and-technology precinct supports a younger renter demographic, and the demand_pressure and rental_market_depth criteria pick up on that. The strategy match for Mawson Lakes typically leans Balanced or Yield. The Yield strategy's 6% gross-yield anchor is occasionally reachable on apartment stock, particularly older releases, and the Balanced strategy's 5% anchor fits the broader townhouse and detached stock. The interesting question for any Mawson Lakes listing is the body corporate, since a meaningful share of the suburb's stock sits inside strata schemes of varying quality.
Mawson Lakes SA 5095 recorded a median house sale price of $845,000 over the past 12 months, up 11.2% annually, according to propertyvalue.com.au (Cotality/CoreLogic data). The Office of the Valuer-General SA reported a March quarter 2026 median of $1,040,000, up 12.9% year-on-year, reflecting a strong vendor market with tight stock (inventory of 0.68 months) and an average vendor discount of -3.1%, per inthesuburbs.com.au and propertyvalue.com.au respectively.
Anchor points pulled per refresh from publicly available suburb profiles. Approximate; not a moving average.
Vendor discounting is tight at -3.1% and stock on market is very low (0.68 months inventory), while days on market (29-33 days) and vacancy (1.12%) are broadly stable, pointing to a warming market that favours sellers.
Sources: Mawson Lakes House Prices & Property Trends (2026-01-01); Mawson Lakes SA 5095 | Established Suburb in Salisbury (2026-03-31); Mawson Lakes, SA 5095: Suburb Profile & Property Report | YIP (2026-04-01); Mawson Lakes, South Australia — Grokipedia (2026-01-14); Mawson Lakes SA 5095 — AuHousePrices (2023-03-01) · Refreshed 4 Sep 2026
PropertyRanker scores any Australian property against 12 criteria across three pillars: Growth, Cashflow, and Risk. SEIFA is a primary signal for economic strength and a supporting one for entry-price risk. It also informs the crime side of hazard risk, though physical overlays like flood, bushfire and coastal exposure, and recorded crime data where available, take priority there. The decile of 6 shown above gives a listing in Mawson Lakes a stronger starting line on economic strength than the national median postcode, and a softer one on entry-price risk, since more advantaged postcodes usually carry higher entry prices.
On top of that, PropertyRanker chooses one of four strategies (Balanced, Growth, Yield, Regional) and applies a per-strategy yield anchor. The anchors are 3.5% for Growth, 5% for Balanced, 6% for Yield, and 7% for Regional. A postcode at this level of relative advantage tends to suit the Growth (3.5% anchor) and Balanced (5% anchor) strategies more readily than Yield (6%) or Regional (7%), because a higher entry price compresses the gross yield a listing can reach without a specific value-add.
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SEIFA is a postcode-level read. The fastest sanity check on any single decile reading is to compare it against the suburbs that surround it.
Master-planned-community stock varies sharply by builder and release date. SEIFA cannot tell you which release a listing comes from, the body corporate's sinking-fund health, or whether the lake-side and canal-side stock has any salinity or water-quality issues at the listing level. The university semester rhythm shapes the rental absorption in some pockets more than others. Score the listing in PropertyRanker for a verdict that accounts for these.
The SEIFA IRSAD reading of 982 places Mawson Lakes at decile 6, which is a mid-band result sitting just below the national mean of 1000 but comfortably above the broader northern-Adelaide average at the 62nd state percentile. PropertyRanker treats this as a neutral-to-slightly-positive signal on economic_strength and entry_point_risk, meaning the suburb generates no strong scoring headwind or tailwind on those criteria. The master-planned layout, the University of South Australia campus, and the Technology Park employment precinct create a structural demand base that the tool picks up separately through demand_pressure and rental_market_depth. Investors should score individual listings to see how those factors combine with the property type and condition.
The data most often points toward Balanced (anchored around 5 percent gross yield) or High Yield (anchored around 6 percent), depending on the specific stock. Detached houses and townhouses tend to align with the Balanced strategy, while older apartment releases inside the suburb's strata schemes occasionally approach the High Yield anchor. Capital Growth (around 3.5 percent) and Regional (around 7 percent) are less natural fits here: the suburb's mid-SEIFA band and flat northern-Adelaide land-value trajectory do not strongly support a pure capital-growth case, and the 7 percent Regional anchor is rarely achievable on established stock. Score the specific listing on PropertyRanker to confirm which strategy threshold is within reach.
The most immediate risk to verify at the listing level is body corporate quality: a meaningful share of Mawson Lakes stock sits inside strata schemes, and the levy structure, sinking fund health, and any pending special levies can materially affect net returns. Mawson Lakes is a water-sensitive master-planned suburb with lakes and canals as a central design element, so proximity to those water features warrants a check of the City of Salisbury's flood and stormwater mapping; the council has invested heavily in stormwater management, but individual allotment-level exposure still varies. The SEIFA decile 6 reading also signals that the suburb is not insulated from the economic softness that affects northern Adelaide more broadly, which PropertyRanker flags as a moderate entry_point_risk rather than a low one.
PropertyRanker feeds the SEIFA IRSAD reading into three of its twelve scoring criteria: economic_strength, hazard_risk, and entry_point_risk. For Mawson Lakes, the decile 6 band produces mid-range outputs on all three, meaning no criterion is scored at an extreme in either direction. The remaining nine criteria, including demand_pressure, rental_market_depth, and infrastructure_access, draw on other data sources specific to the listing and its immediate location. Because Mawson Lakes sits on the Adelaide Metro Gawler line with a high-frequency interchange station inside the postcode, infrastructure_access is likely to score more favourably than the SEIFA reading alone would suggest.
The presence of the University of South Australia campus and the Technology Park precinct within the postcode concentrates demand toward younger renters, students, and knowledge-sector workers. This is a double-edged dynamic: it supports rental_market_depth and demand_pressure scores, but it also means vacancy exposure can spike during semester breaks or if the university's intake changes. Investors evaluating apartment stock in particular should check current vacancy conditions through a live PropertyRanker score rather than relying on suburb-wide averages, as the tenant pool for apartments and the pool for detached houses in 5095 behave differently.
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