Adelaide River NT 0846
Adelaide River is in Coomalie LGA, NT, postcode 0846, with population 317.
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Adelaide River depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Crime, and Hospitals.
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Release-based suburb price series, not a live market feed
This gives you directional coverage, but it is weaker than a current rent release.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
Adelaide River depends on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
The page still has useful coverage, but Market rent should be treated as fallback or lower-precision evidence. Missing signals include Property prices, Crime, and Hospitals.
Verify fallback signals manually and compare against stronger nearby suburbs before treating this as a shortlist candidate.
Schools, Population growth, Building approvals
Market rent
Property prices, Crime, Hospitals, Transport
Adelaide River currently reads as a thin-context candidate.
Population movement supports a growth-led read. Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting.
Use stronger nearby reads or rankings before treating this suburb as a shortlist candidate.
Population movement supports a growth-led read.
Evidence depth is verify-heavy, so the profile should be treated as provisional. The page is thin enough that nearby alternatives should be checked before shortlisting. Small local population makes the signal set more fragile.
Property prices, Transport
Use as context
This page stays indexable because Adelaide River is a real locality with enough context to be directionally useful. The tradeoff is that coverage is lighter than a stronger suburb profile, so the read should stay cautious.
Treat this as a directional locality brief first, then verify the suburb story against stronger nearby markets or the state hub.
The main gaps on this page are hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
This page is useful for direction-setting, not closure. Use it to frame the locality, then confirm the story with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Adelaide River feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop +100 · rent -$50/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
pop -200 · rent +$100/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
- Buyers want a quick sense of price, schools, and neighbourhood scale before getting lost in data.
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- Researchers want one place that ties property, demographics, transport, and services together.
Price history
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
Full data detail
Adelaide River NT
Adelaide River is a quiet locality in Northern Territory within the Coomalie local government area (postcode 0846). With a population of 317, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $52K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +2.1% year-on-year at the LGA level. NT employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NT also had 4 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 3 underway, and 5 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are machinery operators & drivers, clerical & administrative, managers. Employment in the area leans toward accommodation & food and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, Aboriginal Australian, English.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,333.
Adelaide River is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 855, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +2.1% year-on-year indicates strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Adelaide River is a quiet locality in Northern Territory within the Coomalie local government area (postcode 0846). With a population of 317, the suburb has a mature demographic with a median age of 52. Households earn a median income of $52K per year, with an average household size of 2.2 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement into the broader catchment, with population growth running at +2.1% year-on-year at the LGA level. NT employment has moved +0.9% year-on-year in the official Jobs and Skills Australia NERO series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NT also had 4 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 3 underway, and 5 in planning as at 2 October 2024, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are machinery operators & drivers, clerical & administrative, managers. Employment in the area leans toward accommodation & food and construction. The top ancestries reported are Australian, Aboriginal Australian, English.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $1,333.
Adelaide River is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 855, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +2.1% year-on-year indicates strong growth demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
Adelaide River FAQ
Common questions-
What LGA is Adelaide River in?
Adelaide River is in the Coomalie Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0846. Council-level context for Coomalie LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
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What is the typical weekly rent in Adelaide River?
The median weekly rent in Adelaide River is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
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Is Adelaide River a good investment?
QuickProperty's investment signals for Adelaide River show: Strong Growth, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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Where does QuickProperty get its data for Adelaide River?
Property prices come from state Valuers General offices and ABS Data by Region. Demographics are from ABS Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA. Crime statistics are from state police agencies. Transport data is sourced from GTFS feeds.
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How often is the Adelaide River data updated?
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.