The data
Every number, with its status and its source.
What the register verifies, what the Census measures, and what the waste stream holds. Where a number is missing it says so and says why, because a page that only shows what it knows reads as more certain than it is.
Delivered · register-verified
540
beds in community
11
communities served
22
washing machines
3,540kg
recycled HDPE diverted
Source: the live asset register. Every number, audited
Community by community · delivered beside measured need
The setting each delivery landed in.
| Community | Beds delivered | Households short a bedroom (ABS 2021) | Share of households | People per dwelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tennant Creek ILOC excludes town camps, so this understates the town camps Goods works with. | 160 | 90 of 864 | 10.4% | ~2.95 |
| Utopia Homelands | 147 | 34 of 82 | 41.5% | ~5.41 |
| Palm Island | 131 | Queensland: the ILOC pack ingested so far covers the NT only. | ||
| Maningrida | 58 | 237 of 394 | 60.2% | ~6.39 |
| Kalgoorlie | 20 | Western Australia: the ILOC pack ingested so far covers the NT only. | ||
| Alice Springs | 16 | Urban multi-ILOC area: no single honest ILOC mapping. | ||
| Canberra | 2 | ACT: outside the remote-community frame this measure describes. | ||
| Mount Isa | 2 | Queensland: the ILOC pack ingested so far covers the NT only. | ||
| Kununurra | 2 | Western Australia: the ILOC pack ingested so far covers the NT only. | ||
| Darwin Central Darwin ILOC only, not greater Darwin. | 1 | 226 of 2,984 | 7.6% | ~2.4 |
| Katherine ILOC excludes town camps. | 1 | 176 of 2,759 | 6.4% | ~3.29 |
Need is ABS Census 2021 Indigenous Profile DataPack, table I16 (ILOC), housing suitability (CNOS); as at Census night 10 August 2021. ABS DataPacks. It measures the place on Census night, not demand for any product and not an outcome of this work. People-per-dwelling is derived and approximate. Delivered counts are the register’s, ruled per community.
The wider setting
The supply is measured. So is the need.
4,933 tonnes
verifiedPlastics recycled in the NT, 2023-24
The NT recycled 4,933 tonnes of plastic in a year, 8% of everything recycled in the Territory.
Source: WRINT/AEAS275,190 tonnes (56.4% of 487,580t processed)
verifiedNT waste to landfill, 2023-24
More than half of everything the NT waste industry handles still goes to landfill.
Source: WRINT/AEAS report~530 tonnes
verifiedPlastic drink containers returned via NT CDS, 2023-24
100 million containers came back through the deposit scheme in a year; the PET share is about 530 tonnes.
Source: NT EPA2,761 households (51.3%)
verifiedVery remote NT: First Nations households needing at least one more bedroom
In very remote NT, half of all First Nations households, 2,761 of 5,377, need at least one more bedroom.
Source: ABS Census 20214,385 households (28.7%)
verifiedNT-wide: First Nations households needing at least one more bedroom
Across the whole NT, 4,385 First Nations households need at least one more bedroom.
Source: ABS Census 202143.4%, the lowest of any jurisdiction
verifiedFirst Nations people in appropriately sized housing, NT
Fewer than half of First Nations people in the NT live in appropriately sized housing, the lowest result in the country, against 81.4% nationally.
Source: ABS72 communities · 79 outstations · ~500 homelands
verifiedRemote communities and homelands served with essential services
Essential services reach 72 remote communities and 79 outstations (~39,000 customers); about 500 homelands hold 2,400 homes and 10,000 people.
Source: Power and Water Corporation20kg
workpaperRecycled HDPE in one Stretch Bed
A Stretch Bed's pressed legs carry about 20kg of recycled HDPE; one tonne of clean plastic is roughly 50 beds' legs.
Source: Product spec; Ben ruling 2026-08-24; canon plastic-kg derivationNone of this measures a health outcome, and this page never claims one. It measures the setting: the households, the plastic, the beds. The outcomes work belongs to communities and their health partners.