Hawthorn is a suburb of

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, in the

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. It is bounded to the north by Cross Road, to the south by Grange Road, to the west by Sussex Terrace and to the east by Belair Road. To the west is Westbourne Park, and to the east is Kingswood.

Brown Hill Creek Brown Hill Creek, also known as ''Willawilla'' in the Kaurna language, is a watercourse flowing from the Adelaide Hills through in the inner south suburbs of the Adelaide metropolitan area, in the Australian state of South Australia. It is part ...

runs through the suburb. Hawthorn is an upper-middle-class suburb, with a median weekly income of $1,475. The median household price is the fifteenth-highest in the city, at approximately $1,012,700. Several parks are situated here, including the Mitcham Memorial Gardens and Price Memorial Oval, home of the Mitcham Hawks Football Club. The closest primary school to the suburb is

Mitcham Primary School Mitcham Primary School is a South Australian State school serving the Mitcham, South Australia, Mitcham area and situated on Hillview Road, Kingswood, South Australia, Kingswood. It is the oldest continuously operating school in South Australia. ...

and the nearest high schools are

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and

Mitcham Girls High School Mitcham Girls High School, located in Kingswood, is the only single-sex government high school in the state of South Australia. It has approximately 850 students in grades 7 to 13. As the school is unzoned, it attracts students from all across ...

. Private schools such as Scotch College and Mercedes College are also close by. The

Belair line The Belair line is a suburban rail commuter route in greater Adelaide, South Australia, that runs from the Adelaide railway station to Belair in the Adelaide Hills via the Adelaide-Wolseley line using diesel 3000/3100 class railcars. This pa ...

runs through the western side of the suburb. While Hawthorn formerly had its own stop on the line until 1995, the Unley Park railway station sits on the border of Hawthorn and Westbourne Park.Belair timetable
Adelaide Metro 12 October 2014

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