4.6% ▼ -23.8%
Lower than 78% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
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.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Remote Australia, where only 4.6% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This low rate is much lower than in most other areas, reflecting the extreme distances and lack of alternatives for getting around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 40% owning two and 10.4% owning four or more. The proportion of households without a vehicle fell slightly to 4.6% since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Remote Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (29%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A car is the primary way to get to work for 63.8% of people, while only 1.6% use public transport. Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 7.2% of the workforce doing so.
7.2% ▲ +0.2%
Lower than 75% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.2%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -62.1%
Lower than 52% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 4.3%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 1.6%
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/RA53/remote-australia/topic/transport