5.6% ▼ -19.9%
Higher than 51% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 7.0%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
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.
Almost 68% of workers in Outer Regional Australia drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. Most homes here own multiple vehicles, and very few people use public transport or work from home compared to the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 39.5% of households own two cars, and nearly 21% have three or more. Only 5.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the national figure and a slight drop from 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Outer Regional Australia, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 39%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here, with only 4.3% doing so—a figure far below the 21% national average. Public transport use is also low at 2.3%, which is about the same as the national figure and down from 3.4% in 2011.
4.3% ▲ +62.7%
Lower than 89% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.3% ▼ -30.4%
Higher than 58% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 2.3%
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 Outer Regional Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA72/outer-regional-australia/topic/transport