2.0% ▼ -25.6%
Higher than 56% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Acacia Hills · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Acacia Hills
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost every household in Acacia Hills owns a car, making it much more vehicle-reliant than the Northern Territory average. With only 2% of homes lacking a motor vehicle, car ownership is a necessity for residents in this rural setting.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have multiple cars, with 82.6% of households owning two or more vehicles. This means far fewer people live without a car compared to the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Acacia Hills, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 36%, followed by 3 vehicles (25%) and 4 or more (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 68.3% of workers drive themselves to work, while 10.9% work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Territory average, though far below the national figure.
10.9% ▲ +67.3%
Lower than 70% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -57.0%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 1.5%
- 2021: 0.9%
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, which is far below the Northern Territory average. Consequently, no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes.
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).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
0
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).
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)).
- Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Acacia Hills [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70001/acacia-hills/topic/transport