The City of Salisbury is a local government area (LGA) located in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.

For millennia, the Aboriginal Kaurna people were custodians of the Adelaide Plains, including the Salisbury area.

Harvey purchased land beside the Little Para River in 1847 and in the following year sold allotments in the town.

[10] The population of the township at incorporation was 2385,[9] but almost doubled from 1940 when the federal government built a munitions factory at Penfield, reaching 4160 by 1947.

The large St Kilda adventure playground, with its wheelchair-accessible picnic settings, barbecues, shaded area, toilets and parking, is very popular: there is a huge castle with slides and a draw bridge, a bouncy boomerang, flying fox, pirate ship, a large "volcano" with multiple slides, swings and a basketball court.