1.0% ▼ -2.9%
Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.8%
- 2021: 1.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nome · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Nome
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost half of all homes in Nome have two motor vehicles, making the car the dominant way to get around. Very few people here rely on public transport, and the area has a much lower rate of working from home than the national figure.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 1.0% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the 7.4% seen across Australia. Most households are well-equipped, with 45.1% owning two vehicles and 12.6% owning four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nome, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 46%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The car is the primary choice for travel, with 69.9% of workers driving. Only 8.9% of people work from home, a figure far below the national average of 21.0%, and no one uses public transport to get to work.
8.9% ▲ +119.0%
Lower than 78% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 5.8%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Queensland figure of 720.7.
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 suburb / locality 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 Nome [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL32157/nome/topic/transport