Local Government Areas of the Northern Territory

The Northern Territory has 63 Local Government Areas; though only 6 councils are considered municipalities, there are other types of local bodies.

Table of contents

1 List of councils and areas (partial)
2 Area types

2.1 Municipalities
2.2 Community government councils
2.3 Incorporated associations
2.4 Special purpose towns

3 Sources

List of councils and areas (partial)

Town of Alice Springs
Community Government Council of Coomalie
City of Darwin
Town of Jabiru
Town of Katherine
Shire of Litchfield
City of Palmerston
Town of Tennant Creek

Area types

The Northern Territory is unusual in that about 22% of the territory's population lives in unincorporated areas (by comparison, only 0.02% of New South Wales population, 0.002% of Victoria's population, 0.6% of South Australia's population, live in unincorporated areas, these being the only other states or territories with both incorporated and unincorporated areas.)

There are four classes of local government areass in the Northern Territory of Australia:

municipalities (6)
community government councils (30)
incorporated associations (26)
special purpose towns (1)

Special purpose towns

The 'special purpose town' of Jabiru receives its power from the entity that constructed the town, rather than the territory's local government legislation.