Daly Waters NT 0852
66 addresses · 7 streets
Lingiari Electorate › Roper Gulf LGA › Daly Waters · 502 km from Darwin
Living Here
Daly Waters is a suburb of Northern Territory, home to about 55 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $1,375 a week. About 62% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers work from home. Common community backgrounds include Ancestry NS, English, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 5 of 10 nationally — a mid-range area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Elsey statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Daly Waters itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
1 service station
1 place to stay
Getting around. Airport: Daly Waters Airport, 1.3 km south-east.
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: 5.6% 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 | 5.6% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 56.9% |
Demographics
Population by age in Daly Waters
| 0-4 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 6 |
| 15-19 | 0 |
| 20-24 | 6 |
| 25-34 | 15 |
| 35-44 | 13 |
| 45-54 | 3 |
| 55-64 | 3 |
| 65-74 | 4 |
| 75-84 | 5 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Daly Waters
| House | 0 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 8 |
Households by weekly income in Daly Waters
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 4 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 3 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Daly Waters
| Ancestry NS | 30 |
|---|---|
| English | 8 |
| Australian | 7 |
| French | 6 |
| German | 4 |
| Irish | 4 |
Housing tenure in Daly Waters
| Owned | 3 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 5 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 5 |
Cars per household in Daly Waters
| 0 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 4 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Daly Waters
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 0 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 6 |
Top countries of birth in Daly Waters
| France | 6 |
|---|---|
| Ireland | 3 |
Languages used at home in Daly Waters
| Italian | 4 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
3,234 bird observations recorded near Daly Waters — most often seen:
- Apostlebird (214)
- Red-collared Lorikeet (183)
- Magpie-lark (176)
- Black Kite (173)
- Great Bowerbird (170)
- Willie Wagtail (149)
- Torresian Crow (143)
- Crested Pigeon (139)
- Red-winged Parrot (136)
- Yellow-tinted Honeyeater (133)
- Galah (130)
- White-breasted Woodswallow (116)
- Red-tailed Black Cockatoo (115)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Daly Waters
- Peaceful Dove (114)
- Brown Honeyeater (103)
- Double-barred Finch (99)
- Little Friarbird (89)
- Paperbark Flycatcher (85)
- Rufous Whistler (80)
- Whistling Kite (79)
- Bar-shouldered Dove (69)
- Masked Lapwing (67)
- Pied Butcherbird (66)
- Rufous-throated Honeyeater (66)
- White-winged Triller (62)
- Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike (60)
- Cockatiel (56)
- Black-faced Woodswallow (55)
- Grey-crowned Babbler (55)
- Northern Magpie-lark (52)
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 Daly Waters:
- Birdum (15 km)
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Streets
- Birdum Street (15)
- Daly Terrace (15)
- Forrest Street (2)
- King Street (3)
- Nutwood Street (2)
- Stuart Highway (2)
- Stuart Street (27)
