Suburb profile

Wadeye NT 0822

Wadeye is located in the Outback Northern Territory region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0822. It has 353 properties across 29 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Wadeye, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Wadeye

Wadeye, NT 0822, sits in Outback Northern Territory and neighbours Thamarrurr. Its 29 streets hold 353 properties, 341 of them houses and 12 units.

Census figures are for the Thamarrurr area, which covers all of the suburb. Thamarrurr had 2,118 residents, a median age of 26 and an average household of 4.8 people. Median household income was $787 a week and the median rent $50 a week. Of 371 dwellings, 278 were separate houses, 75 semi-detached, 6 flats and 8 other; 18 were owned outright and 299 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Wadeye

  • 2,118Peoplelive in the area
  • 26Median ageyears
  • $787Median household incomea week
  • $50Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses278
  • Townhouses and semis75
  • Flats and apartments6
  • Other8

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$0a month
  • Household size4.8people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 18Rented 299Other 54

Schools in Wadeye

  • Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Thamarrurr Catholic College

    CatholicPrimary and secondary

Streets in Wadeye

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.