Suburb profile

Johnston NT 0832

Johnston is located in the Darwin region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0832. It has 1,194 properties across 35 streets. Explore every street in Johnston, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Johnston

Johnston, NT 0832, sits in the Darwin region and neighbours Bakewell, Farrar, Gunn and Holtze. Its 35 streets hold 1,194 properties, 539 of them houses and 655 units.

Census figures are for Palmerston - South, which covers Johnston and its surrounds. The area had 6,451 residents, a median age of 28 and an average household of 3 people. Median household income was $2,527 a week, the median mortgage repayment $2,300 a month and the median rent $450 a week. Of 2,057 dwellings, 1,672 were separate houses, 199 semi-detached and 184 flats; 52 were owned outright, 1,181 owned with a mortgage and 793 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Johnston

  • 6,451Peoplelive in the area
  • 28Median ageyears
  • $2,527Median household incomea week
  • $450Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,672
  • Townhouses and semis199
  • Flats and apartments184

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$2,300a month
  • Household size3people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 52Owned with a mortgage 1,181Rented 793Other 31

Schools in Johnston

  • MacKillop Catholic College

    CatholicSecondary

Streets in Johnston

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.

School details © Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA), from the Australian Schools List, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and modified. ACARA does not endorse Listd.

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