Lake Mackay is in Central Desert LGA, NT, postcode 0872, with population 25.
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.
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.
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the Tanami SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
Lake Mackay is a small, quiet locality in Northern Territory within the Central Desert local government area (postcode 0872). With a population of 25, the suburb has a mix of families and early-career residents with a median age of 36. Households earn a median income of $62K per year, with an average household size of 2.4 people. Recent annual estimates show population movement staying broadly stable across the broader catchment, with population growth running at +0.4% 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 clerical & administrative, professionals. Employment in the area leans toward arts & recreation and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, English, Australian.
On the investment side, Population growth of +0.4% 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
Treat the rent field as missing until a market or plausible Census rent value is linked.
Schools, transport, and hospitals are useful as presence signals, but they still have different source cadences.
This page stays indexable because Lake Mackay 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.
Small-population localities can still be worth checking, but rankings, comparisons, and broad suburb assumptions become noisier faster.
The main gaps on this page are school matches, hospital coverage, transport stops, and crime coverage. That narrows how much confidence you should place on a single-page read.
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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 Lake Mackay feels too thin on its own, use these nearby suburbs as stronger local reads before making a shortlist decision.
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Similar local read: useful for context, but still compare the actual market signals.
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Better covered alternative: use this as the stronger reference point before judging the thin page.
Lake Mackay is in the Central Desert Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0872. Council-level context for Central Desert LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
QuickProperty's investment signals for Lake Mackay 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.