IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 763
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 3 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Northern Territory economy.
Housing
Mereenie
Northern Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Mereenie is a bushland suburb of MacDonnell.
Median house price
No open median house price for Mereenie.
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.
People & housing
Population
4
Median age
37 yrs
Income / person / wk
$1,437
Socio-economic profile
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 599
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 3 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 586
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 3 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 841
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 3 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
762 m
range 578–1026 m
Land below 5 m
0%
0% 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
- 49.3 km
School sector & type: ACARA (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority), School Location dataset.
Local council
- Council (LGA)
- MacDonnell
- Population
- 6,978 (2025) · +2.0% in a year
- Area / density
- 268,339 km² · 0/km²
- Council medians (2021)
- age 30 · $1,151/wk household income · $75/wk rent
- Federal grants
- $4.18M in 2025-26 · $598/resident
- Website
- macdonnell.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.