4.1% ▼ -18.4%
Lower than 87% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.1%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 4.1%
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 all workers in Remote Australia drive themselves to work. Most households here rely heavily on cars to get around, with very few people using public transport and a high number of homes owning multiple vehicles.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are essential here, as only 4.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households own several cars, with 31% having three or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 54.5% of people, while 19.1% work from home. Public transport is rarely used, with only 0.2% of workers relying on it, which is much lower than most other areas.
19.1% ▲ +12.5%
Higher than 89% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 17.0%
- 2016: 14.8%
- 2021: 19.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -65.3%
Lower than 88% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.2%
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/RA23/remote-australia/topic/transport