3.8% ▼ -53.1%
Lower than 60% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nhulunbuy · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Nhulunbuy
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 3.8% of households in Nhulunbuy have no motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average. This makes it one of the most car-dependent areas in the region, where the vast majority of residents rely on their own transport to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 43.5% owning two vehicles. The proportion of households without a car has fallen by 4.3 percentage points since 2011, leaving the area well below the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nhulunbuy, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (37%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 64.1% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 2.3%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%, while public transport use has dropped sharply since 2011 to just 1.5%.
2.3% ▲ +72.5%
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -87.0%
Lower than 56% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.8%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 1.5%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This leaves Nhulunbuy far below the Northern Territory average for transit access, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
0
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
0.00
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
0.0
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
0
Lower than 99% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nhulunbuy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702041064/nhulunbuy/topic/transport