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Desert Springs NT 0870

Desert Springs is located in the Outback Northern Territory region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0870. It has 723 properties across 22 streets. Explore every street in Desert Springs, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Desert Springs

Desert Springs, NT 0870, sits in the Outback Northern Territory region and neighbours Alice Springs, Mount Johns, Sadadeen and The Gap. Its 22 streets hold 723 properties, 460 of them houses and 263 units.

Census figures are for the Mount Johns statistical area, which had 4,025 residents, a median age of 35 and an average household of 2.4 people. Median household income was $2,288 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,733 a month and the median rent $400 a week. Of 1,449 dwellings, 631 were separate houses, 634 semi-detached, 144 flats and 6 other. Tenure split into 196 owned outright, 411 owned with a mortgage and 737 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Desert Springs

  • 4,025Peoplelive in the area
  • 35Median ageyears
  • $2,288Median household incomea week
  • $400Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses631
  • Townhouses and semis634
  • Flats and apartments144
  • Other6

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,733a month
  • Household size2.4people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 196Owned with a mortgage 411Rented 737Other 105

Streets in Desert Springs

  1. Amadeus Place6 properties
  2. Barrett Drive133 properties
  3. Caterpillar Court46 properties
  4. Concord Court9 properties
  5. Coppock Court11 properties
  6. Cromwell Drive169 properties
  7. Delahunty Court15 properties
  8. Eagle Court57 properties
  9. Higgins Court14 properties
  10. Hillside Gardens72 properties
  11. Lakes Court6 properties
  12. Leichhardt Terrace1 property
  13. Lines Court2 properties
  14. Moore Court8 properties
  15. Olive Pink Grove10 properties
  16. Range Crescent22 properties
  17. Red Sands Court10 properties
  18. St Andrews Place8 properties
  19. Stephens Road43 properties
  20. The Fairway35 properties
  21. The Links43 properties
  22. Tuncks Road3 properties

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.