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NT 0822 · Unincorporated NT
What homes cost, how rents have moved, and a feel for the people who call it home.
ABS 2021
East Arm, Northern Territory
Median sale price and rental income of properties in East Arm NT
Crime and safety
The overall rate for East Arm is 42,166 offences per 100,000 residents — 419% above the Greater Darwin benchmark.
That is the clearest suburb-wide answer. Open the detailed profile to see how the pattern changes across offence types and different parts of East Arm.
Overall crime rate
42,166
offences per 100,000 residents
419% aboveGreater Darwin
Suburb-wide estimate from Microburbs' public crime model; it is not an address-level measure.
The people behind the postcode
East Arm NT 0822 is in Northern Territory, within Greater Darwin.
15 people call East Arm home, with an average of 2.3 people per household and a median household income of $2,250 a week.
Public ABS 2021 Census figures. The bars compare the local share with the capital-region benchmark.
Share of residents in each age band.
Share of occupied private dwellings.
Share of homes with a stated ownership or rental status.
Vehicles available to occupied households.
Selected ways residents worked or travelled on Census day.
45.5% of workers in East Arm worked from home on Census day — about twice the rate across Greater Darwin.
46.7% of people in East Arm described themselves as having no religion in the 2021 Census.
A closer look at the Census
Open any question for a plain-English reading of the public 2021 Census for East Arm NT 0822.
0.0% of East Arm's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
0 family households lived in East Arm.
These are suburb-wide household figures, not school or childcare ratings.
East Arm had 15 residents at the 2021 Census.
46.7% of residents were aged 25 to 44.
20.0% were 55 or older. That is almost exactly typical for Greater Darwin.
Age shares use the suburb’s total Census population.
Separate houses made up 100.0% of occupied private dwellings in East Arm.
Townhouses and other attached homes represented 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.
Flats and apartments accounted for 0.0% of occupied private dwellings.
All three shares use occupied private dwellings as the denominator.
0.0% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
0.0% were buying their home with a mortgage.
100.0% rented their home. That is about twice the Greater Darwin rate.
Tenure shares include households that stated one of these three arrangements.
The average household in East Arm had 2.3 people.
One-person households made up 0.0% of occupied homes. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
Two-person households represented 80.0%, while 0.0% had four or more usual residents.
Household size counts usual residents in occupied homes.
45.5% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is about twice the Greater Darwin rate.
27.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 0.0% walked or cycled.
Travel figures are a 2021 Census-day snapshot.
0.0% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
One-car households formed 0.0% of the total.
0.0% of households had two or more vehicles.
Vehicle counts refer to occupied households, not individual residents.
0.0% were at the same address five years earlier, while 100.0% reported a different address.
0.0% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
Mobility figures cover residents who answered the relevant Census question.
66.7% of residents used only English at home.
20.0% used a language other than English at home.
0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 0.0% spoke Hindi.
Home language is separate from English proficiency.
0.0% of East Arm's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 100.0% was born in Australia.
0.0% of residents were born in China.
0.0% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 93.3%.
Birthplace, citizenship and ancestry describe different parts of identity.
English ancestry accounted for 26.7% of ancestry responses in East Arm.
Australian ancestry made up 53.3% of responses.
Chinese ancestry represented 0.0% of responses.
People may nominate more than one ancestry, so these are shares of responses.
27.3% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat above the Greater Darwin average.
Managers accounted for 81.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 0.0%.
Health care and social assistance employed 0.0% of workers, and education and training employed 27.3%.
Occupation and industry figures describe employed residents of the suburb.
The labour-force participation rate was 83.3%, compared with 69.7% across Greater Darwin.
45.0% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 15.0% worked part time.
Unemployment was 0.0%, compared with 4.0% across Greater Darwin.
Labour-force figures come from the 2021 Census.
40.0% reported no selected long-term health condition.
26.7% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.
0.0% reported asthma, 0.0% arthritis and 20.0% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.
These are self-reported suburb-wide Census figures, not address-level health risks.
0.0% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
Postgraduate degrees accounted for 0.0% of qualification responses.
Diploma-level qualifications represented 0.0%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 30.8%.
Qualification categories are reported separately and are not school ratings.
Median household income was $2,250 per week in the 2021 Census.
The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $0.
Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $635 per week.
These household figures are from 2021; current sale and asking-rent medians appear in the market section.
Working from home was 45.5% in East Arm, compared with 4.3% across Greater Darwin.
Outright ownership was 0.0% locally and 17.9% across Greater Darwin. That is about half the Greater Darwin rate.
Renting accounted for 100.0% in East Arm, against 45.2% across Greater Darwin.
Capital-region comparisons use the same Census definitions and year.
Three useful questions
There is not yet enough consistent market data for a dependable house median. The nearby suburb links make it easier to compare the wider market while local observations build.
The Census counted 0 local families. That describes the community; school quality, travel times and the right fit for a particular family need separate research.
The free data does not have a dependable bedroom breakdown for this suburb. Compare the current house and unit medians above, then use live listings to see what a $1.5m budget buys today.
Medians describe recorded market activity across the suburb; they are historical context, not a valuation or forecast for an individual home.
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