7.7% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 72% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 7.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katherine · Statistical Area 2 (SA2)
Transport & Vehicles in Katherine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 69% of workers in Katherine drive themselves to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on private cars. Very few people use public transport or work from home, as the area lacks the infrastructure and employment types common in larger cities.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 36.7% owning two. While 7.7% of households have no motor vehicle, this is a drop of 3.5 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (33%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.5% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed since 2011. Working from home is also rare at 4.1%, which is far below the national figure of 21%.
4.1% ▲ +34.7%
Lower than 95% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.7%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -33.2%
Lower than 81% of statistical area 2 (sa2) areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.3%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 routes or stops in the area. This means Katherine has zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, placing it far below the Northern Territory average.
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sa2/702051067/katherine/topic/transport