Data SA, South Australian Government quarterly median house price releases.
Original measure
Median house sale price, sales volume, and year-on-year growth, for the quarter, per suburb.
Geography
Suburb (as grouped by local government area in the source files)
Frequency
Quarterly
Coverage
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FruityCanyon transformation
Growth is converted from the source file's decimal fraction to a percentage. Suburbs listed under more than one council area in the source are de-duplicated. Quarters with zero recorded sales carry forward the suburb's last known median price rather than showing a gap.
Status
Independent, personal project. Not an official Data SA publication, and not financial or property advice. More about fruitycanyon →
Derived: slugified from the source file's suburb name, de-duplicated where a suburb appears under more than one council area
name
Suburb name as shown on the map/table
Data SA, transcribed as-is
property_type
Always “house”: the source data has no other property type
Data SA
period
Quarter, e.g. 2026-Q2
Data SA, from the file's own quarter labelling
median_price
Median house sale price for that suburb and quarter
Data SA, transcribed as-is. Carried forward from the suburb's last known value in a quarter with zero recorded sales, rather than left blank.
sales_volume
Number of house sales that quarter
Data SA, transcribed as-is
growth_pct
Year-on-year % change in median price
Derived: Data SA's own “Median Change” column, a decimal fraction (e.g. 0.4057), multiplied by 100 to get a percentage (40.6%). See the known issue below for what happens when the source cell is blank.
Source data
Every figure on this page traces back to the Government of South Australia's own quarterly release, Metro median house sales (Data.SA), published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, which permits redistributing the raw files with attribution. Attribution: Government of South Australia, Data.SA, “Metro median house sales,” sourced 9 Sep 2026, https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/metro-median-house-sales.
FruityCanyon does not currently mirror the individual quarterly xlsx files on this site; the link above goes to Data SA's own dataset page, where every quarter's file is published directly by the source. If you'd rather the raw files were hosted here too, that's a small follow-up, not a redesign.
A worked example
Aldgate, 2022-Q3: Data SA's own file records a “Median Change” of 0.405714… for that suburb and quarter. FruityCanyon multiplies by 100 and displays 40.6%. Nothing else changes: median price ($1,230,000) and sales volume (17) are shown exactly as published.
Ashton, 2022-Q3: zero recorded sales that quarter. Rather than show a gap, FruityCanyon carries forward Ashton's last known median price ($765,000) so the table always has a value to display. See the known issue below for how growth is currently handled in quarters like this.
Known issues
Blank growth stored as 0%, not left blank. When there isn't enough sales data to compute a year-on-year comparison, Data SA's own file leaves “Median Change” blank, correctly so, since no figure can be computed. FruityCanyon's live data currently stores and serves that blank as a literal 0%, which reads as “no change” rather than “not computable.” Confirmed still present as of 9 Sep 2026 (example: Glenelg, 2022-Q3: 2 real sales, median $1,124,000, but growth shows 0% because the prior quarter had no sales to compare against). A code fix for the underlying import bug was written 8 Sep 2026 but hasn't been deployed to the live server yet, and even once it is, the suburb-quarters already affected by it need their original source file re-imported one quarter at a time to actually correct the stored figures, which hasn't happened yet either. Until then, treat a 0% growth figure alongside a very low sales volume as possibly this issue rather than a genuinely flat market.
The source data is houses only, and year-on-year change only. That's not a limitation introduced by this site: it's a genuine property of the government release.
Changelog
9 Sep 2026
Added a field glossary, sourced-data licensing and attribution, a worked transformation example, and disclosed the growth_pct 0%-vs-blank issue as a known, not-yet-fully-remediated limitation.