38.4% ▲ +3.4%
Higher than 99% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 37.1%
- 2016: 40.2%
- 2021: 38.4%
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 more homes in Very Remote Australia lack a motor vehicle than in most other areas. Around 38.4% of households have no car, a figure that is far above the national average and has risen slightly since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Nearly 38% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is 31 percentage points higher than the Australian figure. For those who do have transport, 37.2% of homes have one vehicle, while 17.1% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Very Remote Australia splits fairly evenly between No vehicle (38%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 2 vehicles at 17%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a primary way to get to work for 32.3% of residents, while 36.1% drive. Only 4.2% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.2% ▲ +41.9%
Lower than 89% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.6% ▼ -38.4%
Higher than 61% of remoteness area areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 2.6%
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 Very Remote Australia [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ra/RA74/very-remote-australia/topic/transport