The combined population of Bulman and Weemol at the 2011 census was 291[1] and is one of few significant settlements on the Central Arnhem Road between Katherine and Nhulunbuy.

Facilities in the town include a school, health clinic, police station and an all weather airstrip.

[4] Bulman is extremely isolated and during the wet season all access can be cut off, such as following Tropical Cyclone Paul in 2010, with the community having received 443 millimetres of rain in a 24-hour period, closing all roads out of town and the airport.

[5] Actor Chris Hemsworth, who was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, lived both in that city and in Bulman.

In 1962 Bulman and the Weemol Springs area was the scene of a pilot study to investigate the feasibility of using certain plants, as well as analysis of plant- and soil-samples, to map the extent and gauge of ore bodies in the region.