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Karama

0 residential parcels covering 1.3 km².

Council: Darwin

Highly restricted land

≈97% of Karama’s residential land is highly restricted.

Driven mostly by 2-storey height caps. Karama ranks #15 of 30 suburbs in Darwin, and #794 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 Karama. ABS SAL code 70143. 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 Karama ranks in Darwin

Karama ranks #15 of 30 Darwin suburbs for highly restricted residential land.

Highly restricted

Karama: ≈97% · rank #15 of 30

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

2-storey cap

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 13. Wanguri≈97%
  5. 14. Rosebery (NT)≈97%
  6. 15. Karama≈97%
  7. 16. Woodroffe≈96%
  8. 17. Tiwi≈96%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈2%

Low-density

  1. 1. Wulagi≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈99%
  3. ⋯
  4. 11. Woodroffe≈90%
  5. 12. Moulden≈90%
  6. 13. Karama≈90%
  7. 14. Malak≈88%
  8. 15. Tiwi≈88%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Zuccoli≈22%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈0%

Heritage

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

Highly restricted

  1. 1. Alawa≈100%
  2. 2. Anula≈100%
  3. ⋯
  4. 13. Wanguri≈97%
  5. 14. Rosebery (NT)≈97%
  6. 15. Karama≈97%
  7. 16. Woodroffe≈96%
  8. 17. Tiwi≈96%
  9. ⋯
  10. 29. Coconut Grove≈80%
  11. 30. Darwin City≈2%

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

Detailed zoning map

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

Every residential zone in Karama

  1. Low Density ResidentialLR1 km²89.0%
  2. Low-Medium Density ResidentialLMR<1 km²6.4%
  3. Medium Density ResidentialMR<1 km²2.6%
  4. CommercialC<1 km²2.1%
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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.