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Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area

Transport & Vehicles in Very Remote Australia

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

A striking gap exists between Very Remote Australia and the rest of the country, where far fewer people work from home and more households lack a car. While 10.6% of workers here work from home, the national figure is 21.0%. This region relies heavily on different travel methods, with over half of workers driving themselves to work.

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📍 Very Remote Australia, Remoteness Area

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Homes without a motor vehicle are much more common here than in most other areas, at 10.7%. While this is well above the national figure of 7.4%, it has fallen slightly from 12.2% in 2011.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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10.7% ▼ -12.3%

Higher than 84% of remoteness area areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (33%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.

1 vehicle 33.7% 2 vehicles 32.8% 3 vehicles 13.1% No vehicle 10.7% 4 or more 9.8%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 10.6% of people doing so. Public transport use is also low and has fallen since 2011 to just 1.5%, while 52.1% of people drive themselves to work.

People working from home

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10.6% ▲ +25.9%

Higher than 55% 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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1.5% ▼ -55.3%

Lower than 55% 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 Very Remote Australia, Car (driver) is the majority at 61%; Walked is next at 18%.

Car (driver) 52.1% Walked 15.7% Worked at home 10.6% Car (passenger) 5.4% Bus 1.4% Bicycle 0.6%

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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA44/very-remote-australia/topic/transport