5.9% ▼ -32.6%
Higher than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Transport & Vehicles in Remote Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over half of the workforce in Remote Australia drives to work, reflecting a heavy reliance on private cars for travel. Most households own at least one vehicle to manage the distances of the region. While working from home is more common here than in many other similar areas, car travel remains the dominant way to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 35% of homes have two vehicles, and nearly a quarter have three or more. Only 5.9% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little lower than the Australian figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (32%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 57.7% of people. Public transport use is very low at 1.1%, which is lower than most areas and below the national figure of 3.1%.
15.9% ▲ +0.6%
Higher than 83% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 15.8%
- 2016: 14.0%
- 2021: 15.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.1% ▼ -21.8%
Lower than 63% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 1.0%
- 2021: 1.1%
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 Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA13/remote-australia/topic/transport