Davenport, Northern Territory
Davenport is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia located about south of the territory capital of Darwin.
History
The locality's boundaries and name were gazetted on 4 April 2007. Its name is derived from the mountain range which was named in 1860 by John McDouall Stuart as the Davenport Range after Samuel Davenport, a South Australian politician.Davenport includes the following places that have been listed on the Northern Territory Heritage Register – the Barrow Creek Hotel, the Barrow Creek Telegraph Station and the Neutral Junction Homestead.
Description
The locality consists of the following land :- The Singleton and Neutral Junction pastoral leases
- The Kurundi and Murray Downs pastoral leases, and the Mungkarta Aboriginal Lands Trust
- The Epenarra pastoral lease, the Warumungu and Anurrete Aboriginal Lands Trusts and the Elkedra pastoral lease
Demographics
The 2021 Australian census reported 145 people living in the locality, an 18.5% decrease from the previous census in 2016.The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reported that Davenport had 178 people living within its boundaries of which 59.4% were male, 40.6% were female and 59.3% who identified as “Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.”