27.3% ▼ -10.9%
Higher than 76% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 30.6%
- 2016: 9.1%
- 2021: 27.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Buchanan · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Buchanan
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Working from home has become a far more common way of life in Buchanan, with 27.3% of the workforce now doing so. This is well above the national figure, reflecting a shift in how people in this remote area manage their daily jobs. The area relies almost entirely on walking or home-based work to get through the day.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
A huge 39.4% of workers walk to their jobs, while 27.3% work from home, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 4.2%. Very few people use public transport, with 0.0% of the workforce doing so, a figure well below the Australian average.
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 Buchanan. This means the area has 0.0 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Buchanan [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70041/buchanan/topic/transport