Royal Park is located in the western suburbs of Adelaide.

It is home to a large Polish community, as evidenced by the establishment of St Stanislaus of Cracow Catholic Church.

Other ethnic groups represented include Italian, Croatian, Bosnian, Irish, Macedonian and Greek.

In the 1950s a few streets at the southern end of Royal Park were allocated for Government Public Housing developments through the South Australian Housing Trust.

there has been large-scale re-developments that include private housing and a soon-to-be-built[when?]