Suburb profile

Araluen NT 0870

Araluen is located in the Outback Northern Territory region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0870. It has 1,214 properties across 40 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Araluen, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Araluen

Araluen, NT 0870, sits in Outback Northern Territory and neighbours Braitling, Flynn, Larapinta and Ciccone. Its 40 streets hold 1,214 properties, 830 of them houses and 384 units.

Census figures are for the Larapinta area, which covers 0.953 of the suburb. The area had 4,964 residents, a median age of 34 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $2,267 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,800 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 1,715 dwellings, 1,233 were separate houses, 457 semi-detached and 23 other; 240 were owned outright, 696 owned with a mortgage and 697 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Araluen

  • 4,964Peoplelive in the area
  • 34Median ageyears
  • $2,267Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,233
  • Townhouses and semis457
  • Other23

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,800a month
  • Household size2.7people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 240Owned with a mortgage 696Rented 697Other 82

Streets in Araluen

Neighbouring suburbs

Addresses and streets incorporate or were developed using G-NAF © Geoscape Australia, licensed by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Open Geo-coded National Address File (G-NAF) End User Licence Agreement.

Population and housing figures are drawn from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, Census of Population and Housing 2021, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

Area summaries are generated from the national address file and ABS Census data, and checked against those figures before publication.