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Namatjira is a locality in the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
of Australia, located about south of the territory capital of
Darwin.
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Namatjira is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the ]MacDonnell Region
The MacDonnell Regional Council is a local government area of the Northern Territory, Australia. The region covers an area of and had an estimated population of 6,863 people in June 2018.
Geography
MacDonnell Regional Council occupies the sou ...
.
History
The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 3 April 2007. It is named after the Arrente painter Albert Namatjira
Albert Namatjira (; born Elea Namatjira; 28 July 1902 – 8 August 1959) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the most notable Australian artists. As a pioneer of contemporary Indige ...
. As of 2020, it has an area of .[
]
Demographics
As of the 2021 Australian census
The 2021 Australian census, simply called the 2021 Census, was the eighteenth national Census of Population and Housing in Australia. The 2021 Census took place on 10 August 2021, and was conducted by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). ...
, 164 people resided in Namatjira, down from 175 in the . The median
The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sample, a statistical population, population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “ ...
age of persons in Namatjira was 29 years. There were fewer males than females, with 45.5% of the population male and 54.5% female. The average household size was 3.6 people per household.
References
{{Localities and communities of the MacDonnell Region, state=collapsed
Populated places in the Northern Territory
MacDonnell Region