16.8% ▼ -18.3%
Higher than 93% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 20.6%
- 2016: 14.2%
- 2021: 16.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Batchelor · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Batchelor
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 17% of homes in Batchelor have no motor vehicle, which is well above the national figure of 7.4%. This makes the area's reliance on cars unusual compared to other similar places. Most residents depend on private transport, as there are no public transport options available.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 16.8% of households have no car, a rate among the highest for similar areas. For those who do have vehicles, the most common setup is a single car, found in 44.5% of homes.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Batchelor, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 45%, followed by 2 vehicles (26%) and No vehicle (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the national figures. Instead, 60.5% of workers drive themselves, while a notable 20.2% walk to their jobs.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Batchelor. 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 Batchelor [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70024/batchelor/topic/transport