4.6% ▼ -17.2%
Lower than 78% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 to get to work in Outer Regional Australia, reflecting a heavy reliance on cars. Very few households get by without a vehicle, and most homes own at least two.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Just 4.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is lower than most areas and a little below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households are well equipped, with 36.7% owning two vehicles and 10.2% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Outer Regional Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, at 8.8% compared to 21%. Most people rely on their own car to get to work, with 67.5% of the workforce driving themselves.
8.8% ▲ +30.3%
Lower than 57% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 8.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -20.4%
Lower than 71% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 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/RA62/outer-regional-australia/topic/transport