The City of Salisbury is located in Adelaide's northern suburbs. The City encompasses a total land area of about 160 square kilometres, including an airport, and many parks, reserves, walking trails and wetlands. The City of Salisbury is predominantly a residential area, but also has substantial industrial, commercial and rural areas. Horticultural enterprises (mainly vegetable growing) are located on the western fringes of the urban development. In more recent years Salisbury has become known for its industry, technology and environmental endeavours. It has gained international recognition for developing wetlands technology, especially at Parafield Airport and Edinburgh.

NOTE: The land use shown in the map is derived from ABS Mesh Block categories. Mesh Blocks broadly identify land use and are not designed to provide definitive land use. It is purely an indicator of the main planned land use for a Mesh Blocks. For more information please refer to ABS Mesh Block categories.