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Outer Regional Australia · Remoteness Area

Transport & Vehicles in Outer Regional Australia

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Driving a car is the primary way people get around in Outer Regional Australia, with 63.7% of workers commuting as the driver. This reliance on private transport is clear across the region, where far fewer people work from home or use public transport compared to the national figures.

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📍 Outer Regional Australia, Remoteness Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes have at least one car, and 38.6% of households own two vehicles. Only 5.2% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little below the Australian average and has fallen since 2011.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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5.2% ▼ -22.7%

Lower than 53% of remoteness area areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Outer Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

2 vehicles 38.6% 1 vehicle 34.9% 3 vehicles 13.8% 4 or more 7.4% No vehicle 5.2%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Public transport is rarely used for work, with only 1.4% of people choosing this option. Similarly, the 8.7% of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21.0%, though this number has risen slightly over the last decade.

People working from home

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8.7% ▲ +63.4%

Lower than 58% of remoteness area areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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1.4% ▼ -26.0%

Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.

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.

How people get to work

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In Outer Regional Australia, Car (driver) is the majority at 76%; Worked at home is next at 10%.

Car (driver) 63.7% Worked at home 8.7% Car (passenger) 5.5% Walked 3.4% Bus 1.3% Bicycle 0.8% Train 0.0%

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/RA32/outer-regional-australia/topic/transport