65.0% ▲ +43.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 45.3%
- 2016: 53.0%
- 2021: 65.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Barunga · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Barunga
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer households have cars here than in almost any other similar area, with 65% of Barunga homes owning no motor vehicle. This lack of private transport is mirrored by a total absence of public transit options. Most people rely on walking to get around the community.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A huge 65% of homes in Barunga have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. Only 30% of households have a single vehicle, and 7.5% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Barunga, No vehicle is the majority at 63%; 1 vehicle is next at 29%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the primary way people get to work, accounting for 69.1% of trips. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figure of 21% for working from home.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 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 stops or routes in Barunga. This leaves the area far below the Northern Territory average for weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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 Barunga [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70023/barunga/topic/transport