Alice Springs

10.0% of Alice Springs's residents were children under 15 in the 2021 Census. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

32 family households lived in Alice Springs; 31.3% were couple families and 12.5% were one-parent families.

25.0% of local families included children under 15. That is about half the Rest of NT rate.

Alice Springs had 231 residents at the 2021 Census.

50.6% of residents were aged 25 to 44.

22.9% were 55 or older. That is somewhat above the Rest of NT average.

Separate houses made up 10.7% of occupied private dwellings in Alice Springs.

Townhouses and other attached homes represented 4.8% of occupied private dwellings.

Flats and apartments accounted for 56.0% of occupied private dwellings.

11.1% of households with a stated tenure owned their home outright. That is somewhat below the Rest of NT average.

15.3% were buying their home with a mortgage.

73.6% rented their home. That is well above the Rest of NT average.

The average household in Alice Springs had 1.8 people.

One-person households made up 54.2% of occupied homes. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

Two-person households represented 19.3%, while 8.4% had four or more usual residents.

5.8% of workers worked from home on Census day. That is close to the Rest of NT average.

43.3% drove a car as their only travel method. That is well below the Rest of NT average.

0.0% used only a train, tram or bus, while 35.0% walked or cycled.

25.4% of occupied households had no motor vehicle available. That is somewhat above the Rest of NT average.

One-car households formed 59.2% of the total.

23.9% of households had two or more vehicles.

28.6% were at the same address five years earlier, while 71.4% reported a different address.

41.1% of residents were born outside Australia. That is about twice the Rest of NT rate.

40.3% of residents used only English at home.

44.2% used a language other than English at home.

0.0% spoke Mandarin at home, 0.0% spoke Cantonese and 2.6% spoke Hindi.

41.1% of Alice Springs's population was born outside Australia, while roughly 58.9% was born in Australia.

0.0% of residents were born in China.

8.7% were born in India, while Australian citizenship across the whole suburb stood at 51.9%.

English ancestry accounted for 19.9% of ancestry responses in Alice Springs.

Australian ancestry made up 10.4% of responses.

Chinese ancestry represented 1.7% of responses.

17.5% of employed residents worked in professional occupations. That is somewhat below the Rest of NT average.

Managers accounted for 20.8% of employed residents, while clerical and administrative workers made up 15.8%.

Health care and social assistance employed 22.5% of workers, and education and training employed 4.2%.

The labour-force participation rate was 60.3%, compared with 50.7% across Rest of NT.

39.1% of residents aged 15 and over worked full time, while 13.0% worked part time.

Unemployment was 7.0%, compared with 8.9% across Rest of NT.

59.7% reported no selected long-term health condition.

7.4% reported a long-term mental health condition, including depression or anxiety.

1.7% reported asthma, 3.5% arthritis and 5.6% diabetes excluding gestational diabetes.

16.4% of people in the qualifications table held a bachelor degree. That is close to the Rest of NT average.

Postgraduate degrees accounted for 12.3% of qualification responses.

Diploma-level qualifications represented 13.7%, while certificate-level qualifications represented 21.2%.

Median household income was $1,463 per week in the 2021 Census.

The median monthly mortgage repayment reported by local households was $2,000.

Occupied renting households reported a median rent of $313 per week.

Working from home was 5.8% in Alice Springs, compared with 3.9% across Rest of NT.

Outright ownership was 11.1% locally and 14.7% across Rest of NT. That is somewhat below the Rest of NT average.

Renting accounted for 73.6% in Alice Springs, against 63.3% across Rest of NT.