4.8% ▼ -32.6%
Lower than 69% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.8%
- 2021: 4.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Very Remote Australia · Remoteness Area
Transport & Vehicles in Very Remote Australia
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people use public transport in Very Remote Australia than in the rest of the country. Private cars are essential for life here, and only 4.8% of homes lack a motor vehicle. This reliance on cars is clear in the daily commute, where over 60% of workers drive themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own at least one car, with 35.8% owning two and 16.5% owning three. The number of homes without a vehicle is lower than most areas and has fallen to 4.8% since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (36%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 16%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 60.9% of people, while only 0.2% use public transport. Working from home is much more common here than in most similar areas, though at 13.8% it remains well below the national figure.
13.8% ▲ +23.4%
Higher than 74% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 12.9%
- 2021: 13.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -58.4%
Lower than 88% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA64/very-remote-australia/topic/transport