61.0% ▲ +7.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 56.6%
- 2016: 57.7%
- 2021: 61.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tanami · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tanami
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A striking 61% of homes in Tanami have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure. This sparsely populated area relies heavily on walking and private cars for travel, with no public transport options available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households here do not own a car, a rate far above both the state and national figures. About 28% of homes have one vehicle, while only 4% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tanami, No vehicle is the majority at 66%; 1 vehicle is next at 30%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
More than half of the workers here walk to their jobs, while 24.1% drive. No one works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figures.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 15.7%
- 2021: 0.0%
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: 0.0%
- 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 routes or stops in the area. This means weekly departures are far below the Western Australian average.
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 Tanami [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL51433/tanami/topic/transport