6.6% ▼ -17.2%
Higher than 64% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.9%
- 2016: 6.7%
- 2021: 6.6%
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.
Only 0.7% of workers use public transport in Outer Regional Australia, highlighting a deep reliance on private cars. This vast area sees very few people working from home or using buses, making personal vehicles essential for most daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 35.9% owning two and 14.3% owning three. Only 6.6% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Outer Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 67.8% of people as the driver. This is consistent with the very low 7.8% who work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
7.8% ▲ +8.1%
Lower than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▲ +15.8%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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/RA42/outer-regional-australia/topic/transport