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Housing

Daly River

Northern Territory · Census 2021

Median house price not tracked for this suburb

Daly River is a bushland suburb of Victoria Daly.

Household income
$979/wk21st pctile
of 278 NT suburbs
Amenity score
8/10044th pctile
of 188 rated NT suburbs

Median house price

No open median house price for Daly River.

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.

How it compares

Household income / wk21st percentile
<$225ABS Census 2021$3,749+
Household income / wk
NT · AU

Percentiles rank this suburb against Northern Territory suburbs that carry the metric — never across states, and never against suburbs where it is missing. Price references are ABS median established-house transfer prices for the Mar 2026 quarter (CC BY 4.0); the suburb figure is a Valuer-General median over a different window, so read the gap as indicative. Income references are the Census 2021 median of the middle suburb in Northern Territory and nationally, not a household-weighted median.

People & housing

Population
116
Median age
47 yrs
Income / person / wk
$596
Household income / wk
$979
▼ 36% vs NT
Median rent / wk
$90
Mortgage / month
$1,312

Who lives here

In the labour force
49%
−12 pts vs NT
Bachelor degree or higher
18%
−3 pts vs NT
Earning $1–$499 a week
25%
+1 pts vs NT
Earning $2,000+ a week
3%
−10 pts vs NT

Households for the family mix, residents aged 15+ for work, education and income; unemployment is a share of the labour force. NT figures weight each suburb by its dwellings or residents. ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.

Housing stock

43 occupied private dwellings

ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0). Withheld for very small populations — under 100 residents, or under 50 dwellings, households or workers for the shares that count those.

Socio-economic profile

IRSAD

Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage

Score 959

Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 6 of 10

IRSD

Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage

Score 982

Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.

Within AustraliaDecile 4 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 7 of 10

IER

Economic Resources

Score 954

Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.

Within AustraliaDecile 2 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 7 of 10

IEO

Education and Occupation

Score 937

Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.

Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 6 of 10

Scores are standardised across Australia to a mean of 1,000 and a standard deviation of 100. Deciles run from 1 (most disadvantaged) to 10 (least disadvantaged).

Source: ABS SEIFA 2021 (CC BY 4.0).

Terrain & hazard exposure

Median elevation
22 m
range 0–222 m
Land below 5 m
8.7%
0.5% 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.

Local amenities

Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
67.7 km
Nearest train
116.7 km
Nearest hospital
116.1 km
Distance to coast
43 km

Amenity counts via © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) & Geoscience Australia HealthDirect (CC BY 4.0). Distance to coast derived from ABS state boundaries (CC BY 4.0).

Culture & community

Dominant religion
No religion · 35%
Top language at home
Australian Indigenous languages · 3%
No religion
35%
Born overseas
13%
English only at home
77%

Schools by sector

Government / Catholic / Indep.
1 / 1 / 0
Primary / Secondary
2 / 2
Nearest secondary
28.3 km

School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.

Local council

Council (LGA)
Victoria Daly · 91% of residents
Also spans
Unincorporated NT (9%)
Population
3,356 (2025) · +1.0% in a year
Area / density
153,287 km² · 0/km²
Council medians (2021)
age 27 · $1,194/wk household income · $85/wk rent
Federal grants
$1.55M in 2025-26 · $462/resident

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. 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)

Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (CC BY 4.0); ACARA School Locations (CC BY 4.0); © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL); 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.