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Darwin City

0 residential parcels covering 1.5 km².

Council: Darwin

Highly restricted land

≈2% of Darwin City’s residential land is highly restricted.

No single restriction type dominates. Darwin City ranks #30 of 30 suburbs in Darwin, and #1889 of 1,972 capital city suburbs nationally.

Highly restricted residential
Not highly restricted residential

Source: Geometric union of 2-storey, low-density, detached-only, and heritage controls across Darwin City. ABS SAL code 70073. Methodology →

Note: Figures and the map cover only the parts of this area inside the capital’s Significant Urban Area; land beyond the SUA boundary is excluded from our modelling.

Where Darwin City ranks in Darwin

Darwin City ranks #30 of 30 Darwin suburbs for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Darwin City: ≈2% · rank #30 of 30

0% (least restrictive)(most restrictive) 100%

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 28. Nightcliff≈85%
  5. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  6. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Low-density

  1. 1. Wulagi≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 28. Coconut Grove≈30%
  5. 29. Zuccoli≈22%
  6. 30. Darwin City≈0%

Heritage

  1. 1. Alawa≈0%
  2. 2. Anula≈0%
  3. ⋯
  4. 4. Bellamack≈0%
  5. 5. Coconut Grove≈0%
  6. 6. Darwin City≈0%
  7. 7. Driver≈0%
  8. 8. Durack (NT)≈0%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Wulagi≈0%
  11. 30. Zuccoli≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 28. Nightcliff≈85%
  5. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  6. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Source: Darwin City ranked against other Darwin suburbs on each restriction metric (ex-rural shares). Methodology →

Detailed zoning map

Darwin City’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Darwin City

  1. High Density ResidentialHR<1 km²1.1%
  2. Central BusinessCB1 km²98.7%
  3. CommercialC——
  4. Tourist CommercialTC<1 km²0.2%
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Source: State-published zoning data, residential ex-rural, bounded to the Significant Urban Area. Areas measure the zone polygons drawn here, which include road reserve and unsubdivided land, so they are a different measure from the lot-by-lot areas behind this page’s restricted-land figures.