Athol Park 5012 - South Australia

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Athol Park is a north-western suburb of Adelaide, 10 kilometres from the CBD, and falls under the City of Charles Sturt. It is adjacent to the suburbs of Ottoway, Pennington, Woodville North, and Mansfield Park. It is bordered to the west by Glenroy Street, to the east by Hanson Rd, to the south by Hamilton Rd and Park Avenue and to the north by Grand Junction Road.

The suburb consists of a residential southern part of the suburb, and a light industrial north, which mainly consists of warehouses. It is home to a large number of houses owned by the South Australian Housing Trust. In the 1990s, plans were made for the Westwood Urban Renewal project, of which Ferryden Park, Angle Park, Woodville Gardens, and Mansfield Park are also a part. This involved the demolition of many of the Housing Trust homes, to be replaced by either private housing, or a lesser number of townhouse-style new housing trust homes. The building began in 2001, but as yet, none of this has occurred in Athol Park.

There is no school in the area, but the nearest are the public Ridley Grove Primary School and Pennington Primary School. Currently, the local zone high school is Woodville High School, in Woodville. There are many shops and medical practices on Hanson Road. Fawks Reserve on Hanson Road is the site of an oval which hosts organized cricket and football matches for a local sports club. The closest shopping centre is the Arndale Shopping Centre.

Athol Park is home to a large immigrant population. The initial settlement of the suburb coincided with a large wave of immigrants from Eastern Europe arriving in Australia, following the Second World War. Although most of their children have moved on, a large number of immigrant retirees still live in the area. Another wave of immigration occurred in the 1980s, when Vietnamese immigrants arrived after the Vietnam War. Currently, more than 50% of the population is from a non-English speaking background.

Latest Market Price in Athol Park

The median house price in Athol Park was $275,000 in the 6 months to March 2008. There is not enough data about the median house price in Athol Park in the 6 months to September 2008 for a meaningful report. The long term trend for house prices in Athol Park over the last 10 years is +17.7% per annum.

There is not enough data about the median unit price in Athol Park over the last year for a meaningful report.

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