Farrar is an outer eastern suburb of Palmerston. It is 21 km SE of the Darwin CBD. Its Local Government Area is the City of Palmerston. Farrar is bounded to the north and east by the Stuart Highway, to the west Roystonea Avenue. Farrar was originally part of Gunn when Palmerston was divided into suburbs in 1984. It is on the traditional Country and waterways of the Larrakia people.^[2]

Farrar Darwin, Northern Territory
Looking over the suburb of Farrar
Farrar
Coordinates	12°28′41″S 130°59′28″E / 12.478°S 130.991°E / -12.478; 130.991
Population	1,518 (2016 census)[1]
Established	1990s
Postcode(s)	0830
Location	21.7 km (13 mi) from Darwin 1.1 km (1 mi) from Palmerston
LGA(s)	City of Palmerston
Territory electorate(s)	Johnston
Federal division(s)	Lingiari
Suburbs around Farrar: Yarrawonga Holtze Holtze Palmerston City Farrar Howard Springs Bakewell Gunn Zuccoli

The development of Palmerston's eastern suburbs did not start in the 1990s as designed in 1984 and the suburb of Gunn of 1998 was larger. It was decided in 1999 to allocate a new name to the area of Gunn between the old and new Stuart Highway alignments.

The suburb is named after John Farrar, a pastoral pioneer of the Northern Territory.