Douglas-Daly · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Douglas-Daly

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

Private cars are essential for daily life in Douglas-Daly, where every single home owns at least one vehicle. With no public transport available and a high number of people working from home, residents rely almost entirely on their own transport or local walking for movement.

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📍 Douglas-Daly, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Every household in the area owns a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national average of 7.4% without one. About 31% of homes have four or more vehicles, while 42.3% have just one.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 12.5%
  • 2016: 6.7%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Douglas-Daly, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 35%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and 4 or more (26%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home is common here at 24.6%, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 4.2%. No one uses public transport to get to work, as 21.7% of people walk and 33.3% travel by car.

24.6% ▼ -1.4%

Higher than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 25.0%
  • 2016: 10.9%
  • 2021: 24.6%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.0%
  • 2016: 10.9%
  • 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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Douglas-Daly splits fairly evenly between Worked at home (31%) and Car (driver) (29%), with Walked at 27%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport stops or routes in the area. This puts the region far below the Northern Territory average for both the number of stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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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).

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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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Douglas-Daly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70079/douglas-daly/topic/transport