Adelaide jumps up ranks to be Australia's most liveable city in new Ipsos survey

Central Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills have been ranked as the most liveable metropolitan areas in Australia in a new national survey. Key points: Adelaide has jumped into the top 10 to be ranked Australia's most liveable city Safety, affordable housing, social cohesion and lack of traffic helped Survey results indicate the issues people care about this year have changed Market research company Ipsos found Adelaide was the only place that rated above average across 16 liveability factors, such as safety, affordable housing and health services. Ipsos public affairs director Stuart Clark said people were not asked to elaborate on their responses, but Adelaide performed well on key metrics. "Things like feeling safe and affordable housing, it has performed well, and also things like social cohesion and lack of road congestion — compared to some of the other city areas it does really well," Mr Clark said. Adelaide's western, southern and northern suburbs fared worse in the survey, ranked 15th, 16th and 26th respectively, out of the 42 metropolitan areas in Ipsos's annual Life in Australia project, one of the country's largest annual studies of community values and liveability.