31.9% ▼ -15.0%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.5%
- 2016: 41.5%
- 2021: 31.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Arumbera · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Arumbera
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly one in three homes in Arumbera have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average. This reliance on other means of travel is seen in the workplace, where over a third of people walk to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 31.9% of homes here do not have a motor vehicle, which is far above the 11.1% seen across the Northern Territory. For those who do own cars, 30.4% of households have one vehicle and 18.8% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Arumbera splits fairly evenly between No vehicle (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 2 vehicles at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area works from home or uses public transport to get to work, both of which are well below national figures. Instead, 52.8% of workers drive and 35.8% walk.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 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.
Public transport access is high, with 11.67 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the territory figure. There are 3 stops and 2 routes serving the area, with weekly departures per 1,000 people being about the same as the Northern Territory average.
3
Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
11.67
Higher than 88% 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).
533.1
Higher than 79% 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).
2
Higher than 75% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Arumbera [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70019/arumbera/topic/transport