5.1% ▼ -65.9%
Higher than 74% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 14.8%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 5.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katherine · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Katherine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 64% of people in Katherine drive themselves to work, making the car the primary way to get around. This reliance on private transport is reflected in the high number of vehicles per home, though a small number of households still have no car at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, with 35.9% owning two. Only 5.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas, though this is still a little below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here at just 4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%. Very few people use public transport to get to work, while 11.1% of the workforce walks.
4.0% ▲ +19.2%
Lower than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.5% ▼ -14.0%
Higher than 65% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.5%
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 the area. This means the number of weekly departures is far below the Northern Territory figure.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70144/katherine/topic/transport