East Arm · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in East Arm

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

A 56-minute walk to the nearest stop makes East Arm an area where residents are very far from public transport. There are no public transport stops or routes serving the area, leaving locals almost entirely reliant on private vehicles.

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📍 East Arm, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

The most common motor vehicles per home is No vehicle at 0%, ahead of 1 vehicle (0%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

The most common how people get to work is Worked at home at 45%, ahead of Car (passenger) (36%).

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In East Arm, the largest group is Worked at home at 42%, followed by Car (passenger) (33%) and Car (driver) (25%).

Public transport access

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

The area has no public transport stops or routes. This means it is far below the Northern Territory figure for stops and weekly departures per 1,000 people.

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).

21

Lower than 57% 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).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around is difficult without a car, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 56 minutes, which is much higher than most areas.

56

Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.

Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.

Sources

  • 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).
  • Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in East Arm [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70085/east-arm/topic/transport