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BY Melanie Burgess 
Mapped: How your income compares to your neighbours’
The average Northern Territory household is earning just $78 more each week than it was five years ago, and many communities – including Darwin City – have even gone backwards.
Feeling stagnant?
New Census figures reveal the median household income in the territory was
$2061 a week in 2021.
up from $1983 a week in 2016.
Over five years, that's just 3.8%.  The national trend is 17.6%
Over the past five years, most of the NT’s largest income jumps were in the Top End.
Where we got wealthier
  The median household in Elsey, 350 km southeast of Darwin, earned 26.1 per cent more in 2021 than the median household in 2016 .
26.1%
ELSEY
On the flip side, median incomes shrunk in areas including:
Anindilyakwa region
Thamarrurr 
Yuendumu–Anmatjere
Where we got poorer
58.1%
28.1%
12.8%
inc.Groote and Bickerton islands
west of Katherine
The Darwin City median income was down 5.3 per cent – bringing in $2151 a week in 2021, or $113 less than five years earlier.
Job site Indeed’s senior economist for the Asia Pacific region Callam Pickering said in general Australian wages were growing but “nowhere near as fast as inflation” .
"Demands for higher wages are going to become louder over the next 12 months.”
Lyons  $2965Woolner/Bayview/ Winnellie $2826Nhulunbuy $2799Durack/Marlow Lagoon $2572Humpty Doo $2569
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Top NT areas
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median weekly household incomes 2021
Tiwi Islands $757Thamarrurr $787Koolpinyah $1062Yuendumu/Anmatjere $1091Victoria River $1095
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Bottom NT areas
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median weekly household incomes 2021
																																								

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