4.9% ▼ -13.4%
Lower than 67% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 4.9%
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.
Far fewer people rely on public transport in Remote Australia compared to most other areas. Car travel is the dominant way to get around, with 63.7% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, and only 4.9% of households have no motor vehicle. This is a little below the national figure of 7.4% and has barely changed since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.8%, which is a little below the Australian average of 3.1%. Those working from home make up 9.9% of the workforce, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%.
9.9% ▼ -0.9%
Higher than 50% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 9.0%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -47.4%
Lower than 69% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 1.5%
- 2016: 1.1%
- 2021: 0.8%
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/RA43/remote-australia/topic/transport