8.3% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 82% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 8.9%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
0850, NT · Postcode
Transport & Vehicles in 0850, NT
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A massive gap in public transport access defines postcode 0850, where there are no public transport stops or routes at all. Most people rely on their own cars to get around, with 70.5% of workers driving themselves to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 35.4% of homes have two vehicles, and a further 22.6% have three or more. While 8.3% of households have no motor vehicle, this figure fell 4.0 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →0850, NT splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport for their commute at 0.4%, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Only 3.9% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
3.9% ▲ +43.6%
Lower than 97% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 3.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -47.4%
Lower than 59% of postcode areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
Public transport is entirely absent here, with zero stops and routes. This puts the area far below the Northern Territory average of 3.3 stops per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of postcode 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 postcode 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 postcode 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 postcode 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 0850, NT [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/poa/POA0850/0850-nt/topic/transport