4.8% ▼ -31.9%
Lower than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.5%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area
Transport & Vehicles in Outer Regional Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 62% of workers in Outer Regional Australia drive themselves to work. This area relies heavily on private cars, with only 4.8% of homes lacking a motor vehicle. This is lower than the national figure of 7.4%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have at least one car, and 37.5% own two. The proportion of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011, reaching 4.8% in the latest census.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Outer Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 15%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is very rare, used by just 0.5% of workers. While 13.7% of people now work from home—a rise since 2011—this is still well below the 21% national figure.
13.7% ▲ +22.4%
Higher than 73% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 10.3%
- 2021: 13.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -10.2%
Lower than 77% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.5%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA12/outer-regional-australia/topic/transport