Berry Springs · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Berry Springs

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Nearly 65% of workers in Berry Springs drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. This reliance on private vehicles is reflected in a high rate of car ownership, with very few households lacking a motor vehicle.

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📍 Berry Springs, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Almost every home here has a car, with only 1.2% of households owning none. This is well below the figures for both the Northern Territory and Australia. Most families have multiple vehicles; 40% of homes have two, and 23.1% have three.

1.2% ▼ -78.0%

Higher than 50% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.2%
  • 2016: 2.2%
  • 2021: 1.2%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Berry Springs, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (25%) and 3 vehicles (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

No one in the area uses public transport to get to work, which is well below the national figure. While 10.8% of people work from home—a rate well above the Northern Territory average—this is far below the Australian figure of 21%.

10.8% ▲ +47.7%

Lower than 71% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.3%
  • 2016: 7.1%
  • 2021: 10.8%

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: 1.8%
  • 2016: 0.7%
  • 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.

How people get to work

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In Berry Springs, Car (driver) is the majority at 80%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport is effectively non-existent here, with zero stops or routes serving the area. This means no one can reach other people via transit within 45 minutes, and the lack of services is far below the Northern Territory average.

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.

How many people live within 30 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning — a measure of how well-connected the area is (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

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)).
  • Transit accessibility (GTFS + OpenStreetMap, via R5) — State transport agencies & OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0 + CC BY).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Berry Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70030/berry-springs/topic/transport