Where the Afghan community lives in Adelaide
Blair Athol has the largest Afghan community: 12.7% of residents were born in Afghanistan. Kilburn and Enfield follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 28 eligible Adelaide suburbs.
This page ranks Adelaide suburbs by where the Afghan community is most established, using the 2021 Census. Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in Afghanistan. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are ranked.
Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side — ancestry, country of birth, language spoken at home — but the ABS publishes only one for the Afghan community, and a zero in place of a question that was never asked would read as an absence of people. Percentile ranks are computed within Adelaide's pool. This is descriptive demographic information, not a recommendation. The census publishes no Afghan ancestry category, so country of birth is the only published signal. Dari, Pashto and Hazaragi are not published as separate suburb-level languages — the nearest field, Persian, explicitly excludes Dari — so no language share is shown rather than one that would undercount the community.
Where the Afghan community lives in Adelaide
Ranked by the share of residents who were born in Afghanistan in the 2021 Census, among suburbs with at least 2,000 residents.
Blair Athol
SA 5084 · 5,274 residents13% born in Afghanistan
Kilburn
SA 5084 · 5,633 residents10% born in Afghanistan
Enfield
SA 5085 · 6,204 residents5% born in Afghanistan
Elizabeth Park
SA 5113 · 4,428 residents4% born in Afghanistan
Pooraka
SA 5095 · 7,583 residents4% born in Afghanistan
Para Hills West
SA 5096 · 3,295 residents4% born in Afghanistan
Salisbury
SA 5108 · 8,841 residents4% born in Afghanistan
Parafield Gardens
SA 5107 · 18,467 residents4% born in Afghanistan
Clearview
SA 5085 · 4,261 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Paralowie
SA 5108 · 17,504 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Elizabeth East
SA 5112 · 4,607 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Brahma Lodge
SA 5109 · 3,380 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Salisbury Downs
SA 5108 · 6,296 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Smithfield
SA 5114 · 2,482 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Northfield
SA 5085 · 5,043 residents3% born in Afghanistan
Ranked from 28 qualifying suburbs.
Ranked on the share of residents born in the relevant country (ancestry fragments across sub-groups, so birthplace is the more reliable signal here) in the 2021 Census, percentile-ranked within Adelaide's candidate pool. Every suburb also shows all three census angles — ancestry, country of birth, and language spoken at home — because no single number captures a community on its own. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents qualify. Ancestry is a multiple-response question, so shares read as "residents who reported this ancestry", not an exclusive count. Descriptive ABS Census data, not a recommendation. See how we calculate for the full methodology.
Common questions about this ranking
Where does the Afghan community live in Adelaide?
Blair Athol has the largest Afghan community: 12.7% of residents were born in Afghanistan. Kilburn and Enfield follow. These 15 suburbs came from a field of 28 eligible Adelaide suburbs. In Adelaide suburbs of 2,000+ residents, 0.7% of people were born in Afghanistan (2021 Census).
How is this ranking put together?
Suburbs are ordered by the share of residents who were born in Afghanistan. The census publishes no Afghan ancestry category, so country of birth is the only published signal. Only suburbs with at least 2,000 residents are included, and percentile ranks are computed within Adelaide's pool, so the list reflects concentration relative to other metro suburbs.
Why is only one figure shown per suburb?
Dari, Pashto and Hazaragi are not published as separate suburb-level languages — the nearest field, Persian, explicitly excludes Dari — so no language share is shown rather than one that would undercount the community. Other community pages show two or three census angles side by side, but the ABS publishes a fixed list of ancestries, birthplaces and languages, and they do not cover every community equally. We show the figures that exist rather than filling the gaps with a zero, which would read as an absence of people instead of an absence of a question.
How current is it?
The figures are from the 2021 Census, the most recent available until results from the August 2026 Census are released in 2027. The top 15 is recomputed whenever we refresh the census data.
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Rankings last computed 12 October 2026. Recomputed after each ACARA schools data refresh.
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