41.5% ▼ -28.1%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 57.7%
- 2016: 35.7%
- 2021: 41.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Baines · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Baines
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Very few people in Baines use public transport to get around, with a significant number of homes lacking any motor vehicle. This is a place where over 41% of households do not own a car, a figure far above the national average.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 41.5% of Baines homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. Only 18.9% of households own two cars, and 7.5% own four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Baines splits fairly evenly between No vehicle (39%) and 1 vehicle (37%), with 2 vehicles at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Roughly 19.5% of people work from home, which is far above the Territory average. For those who leave the house, 33.3% drive while 26.4% walk, and nobody uses public transport to get to work.
19.5% ▲ +13.3%
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 17.2%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 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 stops or routes in Baines. This means there are zero weekly departures per 1,000 people, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 505.8.
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 Baines [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70021/baines/topic/transport