West Arnhem is in West Arnhem LGA, NT, postcode 0822, with population 785.
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.
0% of homes here are owner-occupied and 48% rented.
48% rented — renter-heavy areas turn over faster and are more exposed to rate moves and investor sentiment. Social housing is 46% 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.
Getting to work: 26% drive, 0% public transport, 71% walk or cycle, 0% worked from home (2021 Census, taken during COVID-era work-from-home arrangements).
ABS population projection (2022 base) for the West Arnhem SA2 statistical area — the finest official projection grain available; suburb-level projections do not exist.
West Arnhem is a close-knit residential community in Northern Territory within the West Arnhem local government area (postcode 0822). With a population of 785, the suburb has a younger, working-age population with a median age of 27. Households earn a median income of $61K 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 +1.0% 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, technicians & trades. Employment in the area leans toward arts & recreation and agriculture. The top ancestries reported are Aboriginal Australian, Irish, Australian.
The crime rate in the West Arnhem LGA is higher than average at 69,936 incidents per 100,000 population.
From an investment perspective, Population growth of +1.0% year-on-year points to stable demand fundamentals. Building approvals have changed +0% year-on-year, indicating steady development activity.
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West Arnhem is a thin local read, not a complete suburb verdict.
QuickProperty mixes release files, Census baselines, and matched local services on this page. Read the status panel before treating every metric as equally fresh.
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 West Arnhem 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.
That means the read leans more on Census basics and whatever local services were matched, instead of a fuller market picture.
The lighter areas here are school matches, hospital coverage, and transport stops, so a single-page read should carry less weight than usual.
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pop same · adds rent coverage · stronger market coverage
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pop +400 · adds rent coverage · stronger market coverage
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West Arnhem is in the West Arnhem Local Government Area, NT, postcode 0822. Council-level context for West Arnhem LGA (suburb mix, population, rent, and price coverage) is available on the QuickProperty LGA page.
QuickProperty's investment signals for West Arnhem 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.