Lee Point · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Lee Point

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

Every single home in Lee Point has a motor vehicle, making it much more car-dependent than the Northern Territory and Australian averages. While most households have one or two cars, the area has very few options for those without a vehicle.

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Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

No homes in Lee Point are without a motor vehicle, a figure well below the national rate of 7.4%. Most households have one car (87.1%) or two (32.3%).

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 7.0%
  • 2016: 0.0%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Lee Point, 1 vehicle is the majority at 73%; 2 vehicles is next at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Commuting patterns are unusual here, with 33.3% of workers walking to their jobs. No one in the area works from home or uses public transport, which is far below the 21% national figure for home working.

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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: 7.1%
  • 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 Lee Point, Walked is the majority at 62%; Car (driver) is next at 38%.

Public transport access

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

There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. This leaves the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people far below the Northern Territory figure of 505.8.

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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).

6,006

Higher than 52% 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).

6,006

Lower than 64% of suburb / locality areas.

How many people live within 45 minutes of the area by public transport + walking on a weekday morning (computed with R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network).

Getting around

Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.

Getting around without a car is difficult, as the walk to the nearest stop takes 23 minutes, which is higher than most similar areas.

23

Higher than 61% 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

  • 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)).
  • 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 Lee Point [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70162/lee-point/topic/transport