Suburb profile
Tennant Creek NT 0860
Tennant Creek is located in the Outback Northern Territory region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0860. It has 1,791 properties across 60 streets, mostly houses. Explore every street in Tennant Creek, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.
About Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek, NT 0860, sits in Outback Northern Territory and neighbours Warumungu. Its 60 streets hold 1,791 properties, 1,286 of them houses and 505 units.
At the Census Tennant Creek had 3,080 residents, a median age of 33 and an average household of 2.7 people. Median household income was $1,677 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,114 a month and the median rent $180 a week. Of 943 dwellings, 758 were separate houses, 108 semi-detached, 53 flats and 21 other; 104 were owned outright, 116 owned with a mortgage and 557 rented.
Updated October 2026
Who lives in Tennant Creek
- 3,080Peoplelive in the area
- 33Median ageyears
- $1,677Median household incomea week
- $180Median renta week
Homes by type
- Houses758
- Townhouses and semis108
- Flats and apartments53
- Other21
Household
- Median mortgage repayment$1,114a month
- Household size2.7people on average
How homes are held
Schools in Tennant Creek
Tennant Creek Primary School
GovernmentPrimary
Tennant Creek High School
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Streets in Tennant Creek
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Neighbouring suburbs
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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.