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Hawthorn, South Australia

Coordinates: 34°58′05″S 138°36′00″E / 34.968°S 138.6°E / -34.968; 138.6
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Hawthorn
AdelaideSouth Australia
Hawthorn is located in South Australia
Hawthorn
Hawthorn
Coordinates34°58′05″S 138°36′00″E / 34.968°S 138.6°E / -34.968; 138.6
Population2,221 (SAL 2021)[1]
Postcode(s)5062
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
 • Summer (DST)ACST (UTC+10:30)
LGA(s)City of Mitcham
State electorate(s)Elder
Federal division(s)Boothby
Suburbs around Hawthorn:
Kings Park Unley Park Malvern
Westbourne Park Hawthorn Kingswood
Colonel Light Gardens Lower Mitcham Torrens Park

Hawthorn is a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, in the City of Mitcham. It is bounded to the north by Cross Road, to the south by Grange Road, to the west by Sussex Terrace and to the east by Belair Road. To the west is Westbourne Park, and to the east is Kingswood. Brown Hill Creek runs through the suburb.

Hawthorn is an upper-middle-class suburb, with a median weekly income of $1,475. The median household price is the fifteenth-highest in the city, at approximately $1,012,700.[2]

Several parks are situated here, including the Mitcham Memorial Gardens and Price Memorial Oval, home of the Mitcham Hawks Football Club.[3] The closest primary school to the suburb is Mitcham Primary School and the nearest high schools are Unley High School and Mitcham Girls High School. Private schools such as Scotch College and Mercedes College are also close by.

The Belair line runs through the western side of the suburb. While Hawthorn formerly had its own stop on the line until 1995, the Unley Park railway station sits on the border of Hawthorn and Westbourne Park.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (28 June 2022). "Hawthorn (SA) (suburb and locality)". Australian Census 2021 QuickStats. Retrieved 28 June 2022. Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ "Australia Suburb Profile". Retrieved 17 January 2015.
  3. ^ "Mitcham Hawks Football Club". mitchamhawks.tidyhq.com. TidyHQ. Retrieved 25 March 2025.
  4. ^ Belair timetable Adelaide Metro 12 October 2014