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, this page says so and says why, because a page that only shows what it knows reads as more certain than it is.
Delivered · register-verified
Every number, audited →540
beds in community
177 Stretch · 363 Basket
11
communities served
12 distinct places touched
22
washing machines
Pakkimjalki Kari, in community
3,540kg
recycled HDPE diverted
Stretch only, 20kg per bed
Community by community
The setting each delivery landed in.
Overcrowding is the one measure comparable across places, so it carries the bar: the share of households needing at least one more bedroom on Census night. Delivered counts sit beside it as context. A bed is not a household, so the two are never divided into a coverage figure.
| Community | Beds | Washers | HDPE diverted | Households short a bedroom · ABS 2021 | People / dwelling |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maningrida | 58 40 Stretch · 18 Basket | 8 | ~800kg | 60.2% 237 of 394 households · ILOC Maningrida | ~6.39 |
Utopia Homelands | 147 87 Stretch · 60 Basket | · | ~1,740kg | 41.5% 34 of 82 households · ILOC Utopia - Arawerr - Arlparra | ~5.41 |
Palm Island | 131 131 Basket | 4 | · | 27.3% 134 of 491 households · ILOC Palm Island | ~4.27 |
Tennant Creek ILOC excludes town camps, so this understates the town camps Goods works with. | 160 30 Stretch · 130 Basket | 9 | ~600kg | 10.4% 90 of 864 households · ILOC Tennant Creek exc. Town Camps | ~2.95 |
Darwin Central Darwin ILOC only, not greater Darwin. | 1 1 Basket | · | · | 7.6% 226 of 2,984 households · ILOC Darwin - Central | ~2.4 |
Kununurra ILOC excludes town camps. | 2 2 Stretch | · | ~40kg | 7.1% 97 of 1,361 households · ILOC Kununurra exc. Town Camps | ~3.34 |
Katherine ILOC excludes town camps. | 1 1 Stretch | · | ~20kg | 6.4% 176 of 2,759 households · ILOC Katherine exc. Town Camps | ~3.29 |
Mount Isa Whole-town ILOC excluding Camooweal. | 2 2 Basket | · | · | 4.6% 293 of 6,376 households · ILOC Mount Isa exc. Camooweal | ~3.13 |
Kalgoorlie Whole-town ILOC, not the specific camps and households Goods works with. | 20 20 Basket | · | · | 2.3% 233 of 9,974 households · ILOC Kalgoorlie | ~2.91 |
Alice Springs | 16 15 Stretch · 1 Basket | 1 | ~300kg | Urban multi-ILOC area: no single honest ILOC mapping. | · |
Canberra | 2 2 Stretch | · | ~40kg | ACT: outside the remote-community frame this measure describes. | · |
Bars share one scale, longest bar = highest measured share (60.2%). HDPE diverted is derived: Stretch Beds × 20kg, a workpaper figure until the measured run weighs it. Delivered counts are the register’s, ruled per community; washers are the settled per-community ruling.
The health setting · measured, regional
Why a bed is health hardware here.
Two measured layers, at two grains. The region each community sits in (its local government area, which is bigger than the community, and named so the two are never confused): median age at death, and hospital admissions for conditions that should not need a hospital, as a ratio against Australia at 100. Then, where the Census measures it at community grain, what people themselves reported living with. None of this is an outcome of this work. It is the setting the work happens in.
| Community · its LGA | Median age at death | Preventable admissions vs Australia (=1.0) | Reported conditions · community grain |
|---|---|---|---|
Tennant Creek LGA: Barkly | 59 years 252 deaths, 2019-2023 | 9.5x | Of 1,189 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Tennant Creek exc. Town Camps: 75 living with heart disease, 62 with kidney disease, 126 with diabetes. Median age 35. |
Utopia Homelands LGA: Barkly | 59 years 252 deaths, 2019-2023 | 9.5x | Of 372 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Utopia - Arawerr - Arlparra: 4 living with heart disease, 5 with kidney disease, 17 with diabetes. Median age 28. |
Kununurra LGA: Wyndham-East Kimberley | 61 years 204 deaths, 2019-2023 | 5.2x | Of 1,149 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Kununurra exc. Town Camps: 37 living with heart disease, 19 with kidney disease, 70 with diabetes. Median age 33. |
Katherine LGA: Katherine | 66 years 339 deaths, 2019-2023 | 4.2x | The Katherine ILOC excludes town camps, so a community-grain figure would misdescribe who Goods works with. |
Maningrida LGA: West Arnhem | 52 years 178 deaths, 2019-2023 | 4.2x | Of 2,297 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Maningrida: 256 living with heart disease, 72 with kidney disease, 100 with diabetes. Median age 27. |
Alice Springs LGA: Alice Springs | 69 years 704 deaths, 2019-2023 | 3.8x | Urban multi-ILOC area: no single honest community mapping. |
Palm Island LGA: Palm Island | 61 years 83 deaths, 2019-2023 | 3.6x | Of 1,918 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Palm Island: 83 living with heart disease, 23 with kidney disease, 145 with diabetes. Median age 26. |
Mount Isa LGA: Mount Isa | 69 years 497 deaths, 2019-2023 | 3.5x | Of 3,939 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Mount Isa exc. Camooweal: 172 living with heart disease, 64 with kidney disease, 313 with diabetes. Median age 31. |
Darwin LGA: Darwin | 73 years 1,880 deaths, 2019-2023 | 1.6x | Urban multi-ILOC area: no single honest community mapping. |
Kalgoorlie LGA: Kalgoorlie-Boulder | 69 years 761 deaths, 2019-2023 | 1.5x | Of 2,228 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people counted in Kalgoorlie (whole town): 65 living with heart disease, 41 with kidney disease, 178 with diabetes. Median age 34. |
| Canberra | Outside the remote-community frame this measure describes. | ||
Across Australia the median age at death is in the early 80s. Bars share one scale (longest = Barkly at 9.5x). Regional data: PHIDU Social Health Atlas of Australia (June 2026 edition), LGA grain; median age at death 2019-2023, potentially preventable hospitalisations 2020/21. © PHIDU, Torrens University Australia, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 AU. Community-grain conditions: ABS Census 2021 Indigenous Profile DataPack, table I12 (self-reported long-term health conditions, Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander persons), ILOC grain — self-reported, small counts randomly adjusted by the ABS. This section measures the setting, never an outcome of this work.
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/AEAS · as at 2024-06-30275,190 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 · as at 2024-06-30~530 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 EPA · as at 2024-06-302,761 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 2021 · as at 2021-08-104,385 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 2021 · as at 2021-08-1043.4%, 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: ABS · as at 2021-08-1072 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 Corporation · as at 2024-06-3020kg
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 derivation · as at 2026-08-24Method
How to read this page.
- Delivered comes from the live asset register, audited in the open at /register. Register counts are assets in community, not sales.
- 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. ABS randomly adjusts small counts, so components never sum exactly. People-per-dwelling is derived and approximate. Communities outside the NT show the reason they are unmeasured; the QLD and WA packs are the next ingest.
- Supply figures come from the NT waste-industry material-flow report and the NT EPA container-deposit annual report, verified against the primary documents on 24 August 2026. How plastic becomes a bed: /process.
- What this page never claims: a health outcome. Beds and washing machines support household conditions connected to rest and hygiene; measuring health outcomes belongs to communities and their health partners, and no figure here should be read as one.