25.4% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 39.7%
- 2016: 42.3%
- 2021: 25.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alice Springs · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Alice Springs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a quarter of households in Alice Springs now live without a car, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on non-car travel is supported by a high density of public transport options compared to other areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 25.4% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the 7.4% seen across Australia. Most households that do own a car have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Alice Springs, 1 vehicle is the majority at 55%; No vehicle is next at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is a very common way to get to work here, with 30.8% of people doing so. Very few people use public transport to commute, and only 5.8% work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.8% ▲ +65.7%
Lower than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.8%
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.
Public transport is highly accessible with 25.97 stops per 1,000 people, far above the Northern Territory figure. The area also has 8 different routes and 5,424.2 weekly departures per 1,000 people.
6
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
25.97
Higher than 95% 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).
5,424.2
Higher 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).
8
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
Getting to a stop is quick for residents, with a typical walk of just 2 minutes to the nearest one, which is much lower than most areas.
2
Lower than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
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)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70005/alice-springs/topic/transport