Galiwinku is in East Arnhem LGA, NT, postcode 0822, with population 2,199.
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.
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 80% 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 10% · NT median 13%
Nationally · lighter rent burden than 87% of AU suburbs
Owners with a mortgage repay a median of $997/mo, while renters pay about $867/mo — owning runs $130/mo higher on these medians.
At the median asking rent, about 8% of households here would spend more than 30% of income on rent (rent stress line: $667/wk income).
Getting to work: 34% drive, 2% public transport, 61% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
Top 60% most liveable of 4,565Australian suburbs.
Bar = this suburb's percentile · tick = typical (median) peer
Suburb-level access-density index (not an address-level walk-time score), normalised within Australian suburbs. Method based on the Urban Liveability Index (Higgs et al. 2019) and Walk Score — three equal-weighted domains combined with an imbalance penalty.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the East Arnhem SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Galiwinku is a smaller suburb in Northern Territory within the East Arnhem local government area (postcode 0822). With a population of 2,199, the suburb has a younger resident base with a median age of 25. Households earn a median income of $99K per year, with an average household size of 5.6 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.3% 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 professionals, community & personal service, sales. Employment in the area leans toward education and healthcare. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
The median weekly rent is $200 (Census 2021). The median monthly mortgage repayment is $997.
Galiwinku is served by 2 schools, including 2 combined. The average ICSEA score is 662, which is well below the national average of 1,000.
Looking at the investment signals, Population growth of +0.3% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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Much of Galiwinku 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 Galiwinku 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.
Use it for direction first, then confirm the story against stronger neighbouring suburbs or the state hub before relying on it.
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.
Read it as a direction-setter rather than a final answer: frame the locality, then verify with compare, stronger nearby suburbs, and the state hub.
If Galiwinku feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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Galiwinku is in the East Arnhem Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0822. Council-level context for East Arnhem LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
The median weekly rent in Galiwinku is $200/wk, based on ABS Census 2021 rent fallback.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Galiwinku 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.