Median elevation
34 m
range 0–465 m
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Housing
Kakadu
Northern Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Kakadu is a bushland suburb of West Arnhem.
Household income
$1,687/wk56th pctile
of 278 NT suburbs
Amenity score
13/10059th pctile
of 188 rated NT suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Kakadu.
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 / wk56th percentile
<$225ABS Census 2021$3,749+
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
315
Median age
36 yrs
Income / person / wk
$746
Household income / wk
$1,687
▲ 10% vs NT
Median rent / wk
$92
Mortgage / month
$672
Who lives here
- Couples with children
- 13%
- −20 pts vs NT
- Living alone
- 28%
- +4 pts vs NT
- Unemployment
- 15%
- +8 pts vs NT
- In the labour force
- 55%
- −7 pts vs NT
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 12%
- −9 pts vs NT
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 24%
- +1 pts vs NT
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 4%
- −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
85 occupied private dwellings
- Separate house 68%
- Flat or apartment 0%
- Semi, terrace & other 32%
NT: 66% separate houses · 18% flats & apartments
- Owned outright 20%
- Mortgaged 0%
- Rented 49%
- Other & not stated 31%
NT: 16% owned outright · 31% mortgaged · 48% rented
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.
Terrain & hazard exposure
Land below 5 m
8.4%
1.8% 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
0
Supermarkets
1
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
0
Libraries
0
GP clinics
0
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
6.5 km
Nearest train
176.0 km
Nearest hospital
165.5 km
Distance to coast
71 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 · 50%
- Top language at home
- Australian Indigenous languages · 19%
- No religion
- 50%
- Born overseas
- 11%
- English only at home
- 43%
Schools by sector
- Nearest secondary
- 44.5 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- West Arnhem
- Population
- 7,608 (2025) · +1.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 49,675 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 28 · $1,523/wk household income · $80/wk rent
- Federal grants
- $3.73M in 2025-26 · $491/resident
- Website
- westarnhem.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. 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
- Arafura
- State MP
- Manuel Brown (ALP)
Where it is in Northern Territory
View on the full Northern Territory map →Similar suburbs
Closest demographic & amenity profile, nationally.
Sources: ABS ASGS boundaries (CC BY 4.0); ABS Census 2021 (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.