Finke · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Finke

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

Nearly 80% of homes in Finke have no motor vehicle, making it one of the highest rates for this level. This lack of private transport means most people rely on walking for their daily needs. The area is sparsely populated and lacks any formal public transport infrastructure.

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📍 Finke, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

A huge 79.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the Northern Territory's 11.1% and Australia's 7.4%. Only 16.3% of households own a single vehicle, and no homes have two or more.

79.1% ▼ -6.3%

Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 84.4%
  • 2016: 55.6%
  • 2021: 79.1%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Finke, No vehicle is the majority at 83%; 1 vehicle is next at 17%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is the primary way to get to work, used by 84.4% of people. No one works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%, and 0% use public transport to commute.

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Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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: 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.

How people get to work

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In Finke, Walked is the majority at 87%; Car (driver) is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in Finke. This leaves the area far below the Northern Territory average for both the number of 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Finke [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70099/finke/topic/transport