Belyuen NT 0822
1 address · 1 street
Lingiari Electorate › Belyuen LGA › Belyuen · 19 km from Darwin
Living Here
Belyuen is a suburb of Northern Territory, home to about 149 people, with a median age of 32. The typical household earns around $680 a week, with median rent near $75 a week. Most homes are houses. About 0% of households own their home and 100% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include Aboriginal, English, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 1 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Alligator statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Belyuen itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 school
1 medical clinic
Getting around. Airport: Delissaville Airport, 1.4 km south.
Socio-economic Standing
Deciles from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest), against all Australian suburbs. The overall figure weighs advantage and disadvantage together; economic resources counts income and housing, and education & jobs counts qualifications and occupation. They often differ. Source: ABS SEIFA 2021.
Tree cover
🌳 Tree canopy: 18.6% share of land under canopy · satellite map, 2020

Green: 10 m cells where trees dominate, satellite 2021. Blue: water. The line is the suburb boundary.
| Canopy share, 1 m canopy height map, 2020 | 18.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 67.2% |
Demographics
Unemployment 15% · Labour-force participation 15.6%
Population by age in Belyuen
| 0-4 | 6 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 16 |
| 15-19 | 15 |
| 20-24 | 11 |
| 25-34 | 30 |
| 35-44 | 20 |
| 45-54 | 14 |
| 55-64 | 25 |
| 65-74 | 5 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Belyuen
| House | 32 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 10 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Belyuen
| <$650 | 16 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 13 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 4 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Belyuen
| Aboriginal | 144 |
|---|---|
| English | 5 |
| Australian | 0 |
| Chinese | 0 |
| Croatian | 0 |
| Dutch | 0 |
Housing tenure in Belyuen
| Owned | 0 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 44 |
| Other | 0 |
Cars per household in Belyuen
| 0 | 33 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Belyuen
| Car | 6 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 6 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Belyuen
| Australian Indigenous | 108 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
149 bird observations recorded near Belyuen — most often seen:
- Pied Butcherbird (8)
- Torresian Crow (8)
- Whistling Kite (8)
- Little Corella (7)
- Magpie-lark (7)
- Red-collared Lorikeet (7)
- White-bellied Cuckoo-shrike (7)
- Yellow-throated Miner (7)
- Black Kite (6)
- Blue-winged Kookaburra (6)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (5)
- Dollarbird (5)
- Galah (5)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Belyuen
- Masked Lapwing (5)
- Peaceful Dove (5)
- Rainbow Bee-eater (5)
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (5)
- Black Butcherbird (4)
- Great Bowerbird (4)
- Helmeted Friarbird (4)
- Straw-necked Ibis (4)
- Australian White Ibis (3)
- Brown Honeyeater (3)
- Dusky Honeyeater (3)
- Forest Kingfisher (3)
- Pheasant Coucal (3)
- Red-headed Honeyeater (3)
- Red-winged Parrot (3)
- Spangled Drongo (3)
- Varied Lorikeet (3)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
Nearby Suburbs
The closest suburbs to Belyuen:
- Cox Peninsula (3.5 km)
- Wagait Beach (13.3 km)
- Mandorah (13.8 km)
- Larrakeyah (18.4 km)
- Darwin City (19.2 km)
- The Gardens (19.6 km)
- Channel Island (20 km)
- Stuart Park (20.3 km)
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