The council was established on 27 December 1855 when the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide was proclaimed as a new municipality centred on the township of the port of Adelaide, which had been opened some years prior in 1837.

[2] From 1884 to 1900 the adjacent district councils of Portland Estate, Birkenhead, Queenstown and Alberton, and Rosewater, and the Corporate Town of Semaphore, were amalgamated with the Town of Port Adelaide, dramatically increasing its size.

As the areas became smaller, and more landowners named their own estates, the number of these early "suburbs" reached 90.

The boundaries and names of the suburbs were further stabilised when postcodes were introduced to Australia in 1967.

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