Barunga is in Roper Gulf LGA, NT, postcode 0852, with population 337.
The page is still useful for local context, but the evidence stack is too thin for a clean one-page call. Use nearby stronger suburbs or compare mode before treating it as a serious shortlist decision.
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.
0% of homes here are owner-occupied and 86% rented.
86% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 83% 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 9% · NT median 13%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 90% of AU suburbs
At the median asking rent, about 17% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $333/wk income).
Getting to work: 29% drive, 0% public transport, 69% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Elsey SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Located in Northern Territory within the Roper Gulf local government area, Barunga is a sparsely populated locality (postcode 0852). The area has roughly 337 residents and a predominantly early-career demographic, with a median age of 26. Households earn a median income of $57K per year, with an average household size of 3.8 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.8% year-on-year at the LGA level. NT employment has moved +2.0% 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 community & personal service, professionals, labourers. Employment in the area leans toward education and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, Australian, English.
The median weekly rent is $100 (Census 2021).
Barunga is served by 1 school, including 1 combined. The average ICSEA score is 614, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
On the investment side, Population growth of +0.8% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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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 Barunga 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.
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The lighter areas here are hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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This page remains visible, but it should be read as a locality brief rather than a full-confidence suburb profile.
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pop same · rent same $
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Barunga is in the Roper Gulf Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0852. Council-level context for Roper Gulf LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Barunga is $100/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Barunga 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.