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Para Hills is a residential suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. There is a light aircraft airport close to its boundary, and numerous sporting facilities, abundant parks and schools and two medium sized shopping centres. Most of the suburb is in the City of Salisbury while some is in the City of Tea Tree Gully.

An early settler family were the Goodalls, who established a farm at the base of the hills in 1850. When Andrew Melville Goodall expanded the farm in 1853 he named the property Para Hills Farm, building a farmhouse near what is now the corner of St Clair Avenue and Goodall Road. Para Hills Post Office opened on 28 June 1961.

According to the 2021 census of Australia, Para Hills has a population of 6.793, of which 51.7% is male and 48.3% is female. The median age is 36, two years below the national average of 38. The most common ancestries were English (36.1%), Australian (29.1%), German (6.4%), Scottish (6.1%) and Irish (5.9%). The most common countries of birth include Australia (64.7%), England (6.7%), India (4.8%), Afghanistan (2.8%), the Philippines (1.6%) and Vietnam (0.9%). 69.4% of the population only spoke english at home. Other commonly spoken languages were Arabic (3.0%), Hazaraghi and Punjabi (both 2.4%) and Vietnamese and Hindi (both 1.1%).

Para Hills is built on an escarpment of the Para Fault Block at the edge of the Adelaide plains, rising above the plains. The formation of this escarpment has led to short, steep sided gullies which are characteristic of Para Hills. The gullies are usually dry, running only shortly after rain, and have mostly been left as public parks. Outcrops of exposed pre Cambrian rocks have been quarried for use in roadmaking and construction since the late 19th century. The outcrops within Para Hills are not extensive and only one quarry operated in the suburb's residential area.

Prior to subdivision there is very little recorded about the vegetation of the hills. What records exist report that the plains where mostly covered in kangaroo grass, with the hills being lightly covered in Eucalyptus Porosa (Mallee box), Acacia paradoxa (Kangaroo thorn wattle) and Acacia pyncantha (Golden Wattle). Public parks in para hills are now landscaped with Australian native vegetation. Most of the streets show Salisbury council's practice of lining roadsides with Eucalypts, Acacias and other Australian native trees.

The boundary of Para Hills is defined by McIntyre Road and the Para Hills reserve to the north, Kelly Road to the east, Bridge Road to the west, and Maxwell Road and Milne Road to the south. The northern boundary moved south from Wynn Vale Drive in 2002 when Gulfview Heights was declared.

The area was originally inhabited by the Kaurna tribe of Indigenous Australians. By the time the area was settled by Europeans in the 1840s, introduced diseases such as smallpox had already spread from the eastern states and decimated the population. From settlement as distant farming land, to subdivision for residential development, the land increased greatly in value. The land was valued at £4.10 per acre in 1900, £16 in 1937, £420 and £1200 for some of the flatter land shortly after its subdivision. R. M. D. was not the only developer active in the suburb with most of the Goodall and McIntyre farmland being sold to, or subdivided by, other companies. arrangements were made with Woolworths (S. A.) Ltd to provide a supermarket, and with the State government for the speedy provision of a post office and school. Land allotments were set to a minimum of and, to transform the bare farm land, a street tree planting and nursery program was begun with new residents being given six plants to start a garden. An extensive marketing effort to sell the homes included, a home donated to the crippled children's association, subsidised bus services, free use of the olympic size swimming pool for residents, twenty five furnished display homes and £10,000 of Television advertising. All three original farming families have main roads in Para Hills named after them. The farmhouse of Allen Kesters (built in 1934) is still in use, on the corner of Kesters and Bridge roads as a real estate office, and the McIntyre farmhouse was, as of 1985, occupied by the McIntyre family.