The District Council of Birkenhead was a local government area in South Australia centred on the suburb of Birkenhead.

It was gazetted on 22 February 1877 from areas formerly part of the District Council of Lefevre's Peninsula.

[1] The council chambers were based out of the Birkenhead Hotel.

[2] It absorbed the remainder of the Lefevre's Peninsula council, which had been severely reduced in size by the creation of the Corporate Town of Semaphore, on 7 August 1884.

It ceased to exist when it merged with the Corporate Town of Port Adelaide on 7 December 1886 as the Birkenhead Ward, a move supported by the council and the local population.