Suburb profile

Wagait Beach NT 0822

Wagait Beach is located in the Outback Northern Territory region of the Northern Territory, postcode 0822. It has 410 properties across 24 streets, almost all houses. Explore every street in Wagait Beach, its property history, homes for sale and rent, who lives there, and the local agents.

About Wagait Beach

Wagait Beach, NT 0822, sits in Outback Northern Territory and neighbours Cox Peninsula, Darwin Harbour and Mandorah. Its 24 streets hold 410 properties, 409 of them houses and 1 a unit.

Census figures are for the Alligator area, which covers the whole suburb. Alligator had 4,242 residents, a median age of 47 and an average household of 2.2 people. Median household income was $1,279 a week, the median mortgage repayment $1,430 a month and the median rent $100 a week. Of 1,493 dwellings, 1,178 were separate houses, 95 semi-detached, 43 flats and 127 other; 500 were owned outright, 340 owned with a mortgage and 452 rented.

Updated October 2026

Who lives in Wagait Beach

  • 4,242Peoplelive in the area
  • 47Median ageyears
  • $1,279Median household incomea week
  • $100Median renta week

Homes by type

  • Houses1,178
  • Townhouses and semis95
  • Flats and apartments43
  • Other127

Household

  • Median mortgage repayment$1,430a month
  • Household size2.2people on average

How homes are held

Owned outright 500Owned with a mortgage 340Rented 452Other 201

Streets in Wagait Beach

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.