Livingstone · Suburb / Locality

Transport & Vehicles in Livingstone

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

Every single home in Livingstone has a motor vehicle, making car ownership a necessity for daily life. This level of vehicle access is far below the Northern Territory and national figures for homes without a car. Most households have multiple vehicles to get around.

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📍 Livingstone, Suburb / Locality

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Ownership is very high here, with 35.2% of homes having two vehicles and 23% owning four or more. No homes in the area are without a motor vehicle.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 5.2%
  • 2016: 3.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Livingstone, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 34%, followed by 1 vehicle (23%) and 4 or more (22%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Most workers drive themselves to work, while 10.4% work from home. This working-from-home rate is well above the Northern Territory figure but far below the Australian average.

10.4% ▲ +180.9%

Lower than 72% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 3.7%
  • 2016: 4.8%
  • 2021: 10.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.1% ▲ +26.4%

Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.

  • 2011: 1.6%
  • 2016: 1.4%
  • 2021: 2.1%

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 Livingstone, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 13%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport is virtually non-existent in Livingstone, with no stops or routes available. This is far below the Northern Territory average for transport access.

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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).

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.

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).

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).

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Cite this page

Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Livingstone [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70165/livingstone/topic/transport