Ranken NT 4825
13 addresses · 1 street
Lingiari Electorate › Barkly LGA › Ranken · 1081 km from Darwin
Living Here
Ranken is a suburb of Northern Territory, home to about 51 people, with a median age of 27. The typical household earns around $2,124 a week, with median rent near $143 a week. Most homes are houses. About 40% of households own their home and 0% rent. Most workers walk to work. Common community backgrounds include English, Aboriginal, Australian. On the ABS socio-economic scale it sits in decile 2 of 10 nationally — a more disadvantaged area.
Over time — Census 2001 → 2021
Dashed line: district figures for the Barkly statistical area (SA2), the smallest area the ABS published before 2011. Solid line: Ranken itself.
Getting Around & Local Services
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: 0.3% 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 | 0.3% |
|---|---|
| Land with trees, 10 m satellite map, 2021 | 0.3% |
Demographics
Population by age in Ranken
| 0-4 | 5 |
|---|---|
| 5-14 | 4 |
| 15-19 | 8 |
| 20-24 | 4 |
| 25-34 | 10 |
| 35-44 | 7 |
| 45-54 | 9 |
| 55-64 | 0 |
| 65-74 | 6 |
| 75-84 | 0 |
| 85+ | 0 |
Dwelling types in Ranken
| House | 8 |
|---|---|
| Townhouse | 0 |
| Apartment | 0 |
| Other | 0 |
Households by weekly income in Ranken
| <$650 | 0 |
|---|---|
| $650-1,499 | 0 |
| $1,500-2,999 | 7 |
| $3,000+ | 0 |
Top ancestries in Ranken
| English | 19 |
|---|---|
| Aboriginal | 18 |
| Australian | 9 |
| Ancestry NS | 7 |
| Irish | 4 |
| Other | 4 |
Housing tenure in Ranken
| Owned | 6 |
|---|---|
| Mortgage | 0 |
| Rented | 0 |
| Other | 9 |
Cars per household in Ranken
| 0 | 0 |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 0 |
| 4+ | 0 |
Commute to work in Ranken
| Car | 0 |
|---|---|
| Train | 0 |
| Bus | 0 |
| Tram/ferry | 0 |
| Walked | 10 |
| Bicycle | 0 |
| Home | 0 |
Languages used at home in Ranken
| Australian Indigenous | 15 |
|---|
Birds & Wildlife Nearby
77 bird observations recorded near Ranken — most often seen:
- Australian Bustard (8)
- Budgerigar (8)
- Australian Pratincole (6)
- Galah (5)
- Black Kite (4)
- Brown Falcon (4)
- Spotted Harrier (4)
- Banded Lapwing (3)
- Emu (3)
- Ground Cuckoo-shrike (3)
- Zebra Finch (3)
- Brown Songlark (2)
- Flock Bronzewing (2)
Show all 30 birds recorded near Ranken
- Great Egret (2)
- Magpie-lark (2)
- Masked Lapwing (2)
- Plumed Whistling-duck (2)
- Torresian Crow (2)
- Birds (1)
- Black Falcon (1)
- Black-shouldered Kite (1)
- Grey Falcon (1)
- Grey Teal (1)
- Horsfield's Bushlark (1)
- Little Crow (1)
- Nankeen Kestrel (1)
- Orange Chat (1)
- Pied Butcherbird (1)
- Wedge-tailed Eagle (1)
- Western Pied Butcherbird (1)
Sightings reported by observers, not a survey, so the counts show what people record rather than what lives here. Source: Atlas of Living Australia.
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Streets
- Barkly Highway (13)
