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Key trends in Adelaide

By WCCF Editor
Live Music Festival JIVE, photo by Jack Fenby
  • New special-purpose legislation protecting live music venues in the City of Adelaide from the impacts of future developments.
  • Lot Fourteen is a growing innovation district in Adelaide’s CBD, home to a curated and dynamic community working across space, defense, critical technologies and creative industries.
  • Adelaide now rates among the top 100 fastest growing markets for foreign direct investment globally and is the 136th most globally networked business city, ahead of Edinburgh, Osaka and Pune. Adelaide counts among the top 50 fastest growing venture capital ecosystems globally.
  • Adelaide has a strong development pipeline, with nearly $9 billion worth of world-class, city-shaping projects being completed or underway. These projects are delivering high-quality spaces across commercial, institutional, housing, tourism and hospitality sectors.
  • The desirability of Adelaide as a place to study is just outside the top 25 globally, with Adelaide University ranked 82nd in the world and 8th nationally in the 2026 QS World Rankings global top 100.

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Key Facts

  • Adelaide is Australia’s first and only UNESCO Creative City of Music designated in 2015.
  • Known as the Festival State for its wide variety of year-round cultural festivals including the largest arts festival in the Southern Hemisphere, the Adelaide Fringe Festival, held annually across February – March.
  • Home to the only university-based centre for studies in Australian Indigenous music CASM (Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music).
  • One of the top 10 most liveable cities in the world, ranked by the Global Liveability Index in 9 of the 12 years ranked.
  • Adelaide is a Great Wine Capital of the world, and the Australian home of premium food and wine.
  • Adelaide is the first National Park City in the southern hemisphere, with Adelaide Park Lands and City Layout regarded as a masterwork of urban design
  • Adelaide, known as the “City of Firsts,” was home to Australia’s first local government and led the world in granting equal political rights to women when South Australia women gained the right to stand for election to Parliament in 1894 and to vote.

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