6.0% ▼ -16.0%
Higher than 58% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.4%
- 2021: 6.0%
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 use public transport for travel in Remote Australia than in most similar areas. With only 0.3% of the workforce using these services to get to work, the region relies heavily on private cars and walking for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 36.1% of households owning two vehicles. While 6.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, this figure is higher than in most areas and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 58.7% of people, while 10.5% walk. Very few people work from home at 7.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
7.8% ▲ +12.2%
Lower than 70% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -53.6%
Lower than 86% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.2%
- 2021: 0.3%
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/RA63/remote-australia/topic/transport