Darwin City NT 0800

Living Here

Darwin City is a suburb of Northern Territory, home to about 7,149 people, with a median age of 33. The typical household earns around $2,151 a week, with median rent near $450 a week. Most homes are apartments. About 22% of households own their home and 77% rent. Most workers drive to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Australian, Ancestry NS. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 10 of 10 nationally — a relatively advantaged area.

Over time — Census 2001 → 2021

Dashed line: district figures for the Darwin City statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Darwin City itself.

Getting Around & Local Services

• 8 schools

  • St Mary's Primary School
  • First Aid Pro
  • Larrakeyah Primary School
  • Stuart Park Primary School
  • Darwin Middle School
  • Parap Primary
  • Ludmilla Primary
  • Darwin Languages Centre
• 59 cafés & restaurants

  • Alberto's
  • Passengers Cafe
  • Kurt's Cakes
  • Mad Snake
  • Mayberry
  • Little Miss Korea
  • City Pizza
  • Moorish Cafe
  • Treetops Restaurant
  • Good Thanks

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• 2 supermarkets

  • Woolworths
  • Coles
• 36 parks

  • Raintree Park
  • Frogs Hollow Park
  • Bicentennial Park
  • Paspalis Park
  • Civic Park
  • Jervois Park
  • Doctors Gully
  • Duke Street Rainforest
  • Goyder Park
  • Duke Street Park

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• 5 beaches

  • Lameroo Beach
  • Waterfront Artificial Beach
  • Mindil Beach
  • Cullen Beach
  • Bundilla Beach
• 1 Catholic church

  • St Mary's Cathedral
• 3 pharmacies

  • Chemist Warehouse
  • Amcal
  • Chemist Warehouse
• 2 doctors & medical clinics

  • The Spot
  • Cavenagh Medical Centre
• 2 dentists

  • Smith St Dental
  • Top End Orthodontics
• 2 hospitals

  • Darwin Private Hospital
  • Royal Darwin Hospital
• 1 childcare centre

  • Milestones
• 1 library

  • Darwin Public Library
• 3 post offices

  • Darwin GPO Plaza
  • Darwin Post Office
  • Australia Post Parap
• 5 service stations

  • Puma Fuel
  • United
  • Shell
  • Blue Taxi Fuel
  • United
• 4 gyms & sports centres

  • Yoga Territory
  • Darwin Crossfit
  • Snap Fitness
  • Gecko Climb
• 3 golf clubs

  • Gardens Park Golf Links
  • RAAF Golf Course
  • Darwin Golf Course
• 1 playground

  • Tree House
• 1 bakery

  • The Avenue Bakery
• 2 hardware stores

  • Infrabuild
  • Richmond Rolling Solutions
• 2 hairdressers

  • Crystal Hair Clinic
  • Helmet Hairstudio
• 2 beauty salons

  • Dragon Nails & Waxing
  • Ageless
• 5 mechanics

  • Gibbsy's Automotive Darwin
  • Arafura Crash Repairs
  • St John Ambulance Service
  • St John Vehicle Service
  • Winnellie Auto Centre
• 1 electrician

  • Frontier Electrical NT
• 33 places to stay

  • The Leea Resort Darwin
  • Metro Advance Apartments
  • Mantra Pantanas Darwin
  • Darwin City Hotel
  • Darwin Central Hotel
  • Oaks Darwin Elan Hotel
  • Melaleuca on Mitchell YHA
  • Value Inn
  • Courtyard
  • Frogshollow

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Getting around. Bus interchange: Darwin Bus Interchange, 550 m south-east · Ferry wharf: Darwin, 2.5 km north-west · Airport: Darwin International Airport, 5.8 km north-east.

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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: 11.9% 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.

Demographics

Unemployment 3.4% · Labour-force participation 75.9%

Birds & Wildlife Nearby

90,053 bird observations recorded near Darwin City — most often seen:

• Bar-shouldered Dove (5,867)
• White-gaped Honeyeater (5,083)
• Magpie-lark (5,051)
• Orange-footed Scrubfowl (4,979)
• Torresian Imperial-pigeon (4,657)
• Masked Lapwing (4,515)
• Australasian Figbird (4,231)
• Brown Honeyeater (4,195)
• Red-collared Lorikeet (3,751)
• Australian White Ibis (3,296)
• Rainbow Bee-eater (3,146)
• Peaceful Dove (3,137)
• Varied Triller (3,010)

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 Darwin City:

• The Gardens (1.4 km)
• Stuart Park (1.5 km)
• Larrakeyah (1.6 km)
• Bayview (3 km)
• Parap (3.1 km)
• Woolner (3.2 km)
• Fannie Bay (4.1 km)
• The Narrows (4.3 km)

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