Arumbera is in Alice Springs LGA, NT, postcode 0873, with population 257.
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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.
Price series isn't recorded for this suburb. Census housing data is shown instead.
20% of homes here are owner-occupied and 78% rented.
78% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 50% of dwellings — check tenant mix and resale demand.
ABS Census 2021 tenure (G37), ATO postcode rental statistics, and QuickProperty's investor-exposure index. Owner-occupied = owned outright + with a mortgage.
This suburb 12% · NT median 13%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 82% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $845/mo, while renters pay about $433/mo — owning runs $412/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 0% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $333/wk income).
Getting to work: 56% drive, 0% public transport, 38% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
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ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Ross SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Arumbera is a sparsely populated locality in Northern Territory within the Alice Springs local government area (postcode 0873). With a population of 257, the suburb has an established family demographic with a median age of 38. Households earn a median income of $43K per year, with an average household size of 2.9 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +1.3% year-on-year at the LGA level. NT employment has moved +3.3% year-on-year in the official ABS Labour Force trend series, which provides the broader jobs backdrop for this suburb. NT also had 4 Commonwealth-backed major projects under construction, 3 underway, and 4 in planning as at 2025-09-01, which is useful as a broader delivery backdrop rather than a suburb-specific project count. The most common occupations are professionals, community & personal service, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward education and retail trade. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
The median weekly rent is $100 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $845.
Public transport access includes 3 bus stops.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +1.3% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Alice Springs regional market (2026-Q1): median house $504k · house rent $620/wk · vacancy 2.5% — NT has no suburb-level price source; this is the closest regional signal (NT Treasury / REINT).
Much of Arumbera rests on evidence that should be verified before a decision.
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Official annual SA2 price series matched to suburb pages as fallback coverage
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.
This page stays indexable because Arumbera 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.
Read it as a starting locality brief, then cross-check the suburb story against better-covered nearby markets or the state hub.
The lighter areas here are school matches, hospital coverage, and crime coverage, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
Start here for context, then open compare, the state hub, or larger nearby suburbs before treating this as a complete market decision.
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If Arumbera feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
pop -100 · adds house price coverage · rent -$10/wk
Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
pop same · rent +$140/wk
Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
Arumbera is in the Alice Springs Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0873. Council-level context for Alice Springs LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Arumbera is $100/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Arumbera show: Stable, Steady. These are computed from price, rent, income, and population data — not an opaque score.
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.
Property prices update quarterly. RBA macro indicators update with each deploy. Demographics are from Census 2021. School ICSEA scores are from ACARA 2025.