54.1% ▲ +133.8%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 23.1%
- 2016: 51.9%
- 2021: 54.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sandover · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Sandover
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Sandover lack a car than in most similar areas, with 54.1% of households owning no motor vehicle. This is a striking gap compared to the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. Most residents rely on walking or private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Over half of all homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the national figure of 7.4%. For those who do own cars, 38.5% have one vehicle, while 6.4% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sandover, No vehicle is the majority at 52%; 1 vehicle is next at 37%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 47.1% of the workforce. No one uses public transport to commute, and the 7.1% who work from home is far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
7.1% ▲ +118.8%
Lower than 84% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 7.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 5.3%
- 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.
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 and stops per 1,000 people is far below the Northern Territory average.
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 Sandover [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70238/sandover/topic/transport