63.4% ▲ +14.6%
Higher than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 55.3%
- 2016: 48.9%
- 2021: 63.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Ngaanyatjarraku · Council (LGA)
Transport & Vehicles in Ngaanyatjarraku
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap exists between Ngaanyatjarraku and the rest of the country, where 63.4% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is far above the national figure and is the most striking feature of transport in the region. Most people rely on walking or cars to get around in this sparsely populated area.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly two thirds of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that rose 8.1 percentage points since 2011. This is far above the Western Australian rate of 5.0% and the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Ngaanyatjarraku, No vehicle is the majority at 64%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 48.4%, while only 2.3% of people work from home. This is far below the national figure of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to commute.
2.3% ▲ +22.2%
Lower than 96% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. Consequently, the number of departures and stops per 1,000 people is far below the Western Australian average.
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
0
Lower than 99% of council (lga) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Ngaanyatjarraku [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/lga/LGA56620/ngaanyatjarraku/topic/transport