33.3% ▼ -21.3%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 42.3%
- 2016: 40.8%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lajamanu · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Lajamanu
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
One third of homes in Lajamanu have no motor vehicle, which is far above the figures for the Northern Territory and Australia. This lack of private transport is reflected in how people get around, with nearly half of the workforce walking to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 33.3% of households have no vehicle, a rate far above the 11.1% seen across the Northern Territory. While most homes that do have a car own just one, 17.1% of households have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lajamanu, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by No vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (17%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 49.1%, while 45.4% travel by car. Very few people work from home at 2.7%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
2.7% ▲ +22.7%
Lower than 94% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.5% ▲ +22.7%
Higher than 90% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.7%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
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 access is far below the Northern Territory average, with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people.
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 Lajamanu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70152/lajamanu/topic/transport