Angle Vale vs Port Adelaide

The median house price is $860K in Angle Vale and $870K in Port Adelaide, so Angle Vale is the cheaper entry point, with Port Adelaide houses about 1% dearer.

For units, Angle Vale sits at a median of $600K against $700K in Port Adelaide, which makes Angle Vale the more affordable unit market and Port Adelaide the pricier one.

On cash flow, Angle Vale leads: houses there return a gross rental yield of 3.99%, compared with 3.90% in Port Adelaide, a gap of 0.09 percentage points.

Over the past year house prices moved +6.9% in Angle Vale and +15.3% in Port Adelaide (an estimate), so recent momentum favours Port Adelaide, although both suburbs recorded growth.

Rental vacancy is 0.6% in Port Adelaide and 12.2% in Angle Vale, so landlords in Port Adelaide face less competition for tenants. Anything under 2% is generally read as a tight market where tenants compete for homes.

Angle Vale is the bigger suburb, with a population of 4,051 against 1,338, roughly 3.0 times the size of Port Adelaide; a larger suburb usually means a deeper pool of buyers and tenants.

In short: Angle Vale for rental income, Angle Vale for a lower purchase price, Port Adelaide for recent price momentum, Port Adelaide for the tighter rental market. Which matters more depends on whether the investor is buying for cash flow, capital growth or affordability.