[1][3] Douglas-Daly consists of land associated with the catchments of the Daly and the Douglas Rivers and which is located between the towns of Adelaide River and Pine Creek and to the respective south and west of these towns.

The term Douglas-Daly is reported by the official source as being widely used locally.

[8][1][9] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Douglas-Daly and the locality of Fleming shared a population of 238 people.

[2] Douglas-Daly is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Daly and partly within the local government area of the Victoria Daly Region and partly within the unincorporated areas of the Northern Territory.

[7][6][5] Douglas-Daly includes the following places which have added to the Northern Territory Heritage Register: