[3] Namatjira is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Namatjira and the local government area of the MacDonnell Region.

[6][5][8] The locality’s boundaries and name were gazetted on 3 April 2007.

It is named after the Arrente painter Albert Namatjira.

[1] As of 2020, it has an area of 4,325.736 square kilometres (1,670.176 sq mi).

[10] The median age of persons in Namatjira was 29 years.