Median elevation
4 m
range 0–17 m
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Housing
Channel Island
Northern Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Channel Island is a coastal suburb of Litchfield.
Median house price
No open median house price for Channel Island.
Northern Territory publishes no open Valuer-General sales feed, so there is no official suburb median we can show. ABS median established-house price, Greater Darwin: $750k; Rest of NT: $460k.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
55%
34% below 2 m
Shares are the proportion of the suburb's land area. Land where Landsat saw water in at least 1% of clear passes since 1987, excluding permanent water and filtered by DEA's confidence layer. Satellites miss flood peaks, so this is a floor, not a risk estimate; dense high-rise cores can still register tower shadow as water. Elevation is orthometric height from a 30 m model; no hydrology or drainage is modelled. No open statutory flood or bushfire layer is published for Northern Territory yet.
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 12.4 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Litchfield
- Population
- 24,849 (2025) · +2.2% in a year
- Area / density
- 2,903 km² · 9/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 39 · $2,346/wk household income · $380/wk rent
- Council-wide house median (2023-24)
- $733k
- Federal grants
- $4.24M in 2025-26 · $171/resident
- Website
- litchfield.nt.gov.au
Council boundaries and the suburb split: ABS ASGS LGA 2024, allocated by 2021 mesh block and weighted by Census 2021 residents. Population: ABS Estimated Resident Population 2025. Medians: ABS Census 2021. House median: ABS Data by Region, established-house transfers across the whole council, financial year 2023-24. Federal grants: Financial Assistance Grants, Dept of Infrastructure. ABS and Dept of Infrastructure data CC BY 4.0; council website from Wikidata (CC0).
Representation
- Federal division
- Lingiari
- Federal MP
- Marion Scrymgour (ALP)
- Two-party-preferred
- Labor 58% 2PP
- State electorate
- Daly
- State MP
- Dheran Young (ALP)
Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); Australian Electoral Commission (CC BY 4.0); Geoscience Australia 1 Second DEM-S (CC BY 4.0); DEA Water Observations Statistics, Geoscience Australia (CC BY 4.0); Wikipedia state-member tables (CC BY-SA 4.0). Not financial advice.