3.6% ▼ -25.3%
Higher than 66% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 4.8%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 3.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Marrara · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Marrara
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge gap exists between Marrara and the rest of the country regarding public transport services, with the area seeing far more departures per 1,000 people than the Northern Territory average. This is a well-connected suburb where most homes own at least one car, though very few people actually use the bus to get to work.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are common here, with 78.9% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Only 3.6% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Marrara splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 70.3% of workers as the driver. Very few people work from home at 5.4%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21.0%.
5.4% ▲ +484.6%
Lower than 88% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 5.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -61.1%
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 0.9%
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.
Public transport infrastructure is among the highest for similar areas, with 18 stops and 13 routes. This helps explain why weekly departures per 1,000 people are far above the Northern Territory figure.
18
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
13.61
Higher than 89% 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).
948.6
Higher than 86% 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).
13
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
2,385
Lower than 53% 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).
13,077
Lower than 56% 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).
77
Higher than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport + walking time, in minutes, from the area to its capital city centre on a weekday morning (R5 over the GTFS schedules + OpenStreetMap network). Blank where no scheduled service connects the area to the city.
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes about 7 minutes to walk to the nearest transport stop, which is around the middle for this level of area.
7
Lower 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 Marrara [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70178/marrara/topic/transport