Median elevation
509 m
range 322–1083 m
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Housing
Lake Mackay
Northern Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Lake Mackay is a bushland suburb of Central Desert.
Median house price
No open median house price for Lake Mackay.
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 / wk31st 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
25
Median age
36 yrs
Income / person / wk
$574
Household income / wk
$1,187
▼ 22% vs NT
Housing stock
10 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.
Terrain & hazard exposure
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
- 40.0 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- Central Desert
- Population
- 4,170 (2025) · +0.4% in a year
- Area / density
- 281,338 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 28 · $1,122/wk household income · $75/wk rent
- Federal grants
- $2.77M in 2025-26 · $664/resident
- Website
- centraldesert.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
- Gwoja
- State MP
- Chansey Paech (ALP)
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.