IRSAD
Relative Socio-economic Advantage and Disadvantage
Score 827
Measures relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 4 of 10
For state-level context, explore the Northern Territory economy.
Housing
Petermann
Northern Territory · Census 2021
Median house price not tracked for this suburb
Petermann is a bushland suburb of MacDonnell.
Household income
$1,312/wk36th pctile
of 278 NT suburbs
Amenity score
9/10050th pctile
of 188 rated NT suburbs
Median house price
No open median house price for Petermann.
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 / wk36th 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
138
Median age
34 yrs
Income / person / wk
$877
Household income / wk
$1,312
▼ 14% vs NT
Median rent / wk
$20
Mortgage / month
$758
Who lives here
- In the labour force
- 55%
- −6 pts vs NT
- Bachelor degree or higher
- 12%
- −9 pts vs NT
- Earning $1–$499 a week
- 13%
- −11 pts vs NT
- Earning $2,000+ a week
- 2%
- −11 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
27 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
IRSD
Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage
Score 749
Measures relative socio-economic disadvantage only; a higher score means less disadvantage.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 4 of 10
IER
Economic Resources
Score 752
Measures access to economic resources, including income, housing costs and assets.
Within AustraliaDecile 1 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 4 of 10
IEO
Education and Occupation
Score 932
Measures relative education and occupation characteristics.
Within AustraliaDecile 3 of 10
Within Northern TerritoryDecile 5 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
561 m
range 445–1263 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.
Local amenities
Schools
1
Supermarkets
0
Pubs & bars
1
Parks
1
Libraries
0
GP clinics
1
Pharmacies
0
Hospitals
0
Nearest supermarket
37.9 km
Nearest train
289.5 km
Nearest hospital
190.1 km
Distance to coast
716 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 · 31%
- Top language at home
- Australian Indigenous languages · 12%
- No religion
- 31%
- Born overseas
- 21%
- English only at home
- 50%
Schools by sector
- Government / Catholic / Indep.
- 1 / 0 / 0
- Primary / Secondary
- 1 / 1
- Nearest secondary
- 36.1 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); 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.