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Johnston

0 residential parcels covering 63 ha.

Council: Palmerston

Highly restricted land

≈87% of Johnston’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Johnston ranks #25 of 30 suburbs in Darwin, and #1169 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 Johnston. ABS SAL code 70139. 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 Johnston ranks in Darwin

Johnston ranks #25 of 30 Darwin suburbs for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Johnston: ≈87% · rank #25 of 30

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 23. Driver≈92%
  5. 24. Fannie Bay≈88%
  6. 25. Johnston≈87%
  7. 26. Stuart Park≈86%
  8. 27. Rapid Creek≈85%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Low-density

  1. 1. Wulagi≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 23. Bakewell≈69%
  5. 24. Nightcliff≈62%
  6. 25. Johnston≈59%
  7. 26. Fannie Bay≈56%
  8. 27. Stuart Park≈53%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Zuccoli≈22%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈0%

Heritage

  1. 1. Alawa≈0%
  2. 2. Anula≈0%
  3. ⋯
  4. 11. Gunn≈0%
  5. 12. Jingili≈0%
  6. 13. Johnston≈0%
  7. 14. Karama≈0%
  8. 15. Leanyer≈0%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Wulagi≈0%
  11. 30. Zuccoli≈0%

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 23. Driver≈92%
  5. 24. Fannie Bay≈88%
  6. 25. Johnston≈87%
  7. 26. Stuart Park≈86%
  8. 27. Rapid Creek≈85%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈2%

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

Darwin context

Johnston ranks #25 of 30 suburbs in Darwin for highly restricted residential land.

Council:
  1. Alawa ≈100%
  2. Anula ≈100%
  3. Bellamack ≈100%
  4. Jingili ≈100%
  5. Leanyer ≈100%
  6. Lyons (NT) ≈100%
  7. Wulagi ≈100%
  8. Moil ≈100%
  9. Malak ≈98%
  10. Durack (NT) ≈98%
  11. Zuccoli ≈98%
  12. Nakara ≈98%
  13. Wanguri ≈97%
  14. Rosebery (NT) ≈97%
  15. Karama ≈97%
  16. Woodroffe ≈96%
  17. Tiwi ≈96%
  18. Bakewell ≈96%
  19. Moulden ≈95%
  20. Gunn ≈95%
  21. Gray (NT) ≈95%
  22. Millner ≈93%
  23. Driver ≈92%
  24. Fannie Bay ≈88%
  25. Johnston ≈87%
  26. Stuart Park ≈86%
  27. Rapid Creek ≈85%
  28. Nightcliff ≈85%
  29. Coconut Grove ≈80%
  30. Darwin City ≈2%
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Detailed zoning map

Johnston’s residential planning controls, polygon-by-polygon

Every residential zone in Johnston

  1. Low Density ResidentialLR<1 km²68.0%
  2. Low-Medium Density ResidentialLMR<1 km²21.2%
  3. Medium Density ResidentialMR<1 km²9.9%
  4. CommercialC<1 km²0.8%
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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.

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