0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
Tanami · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Tanami
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly one in five people use public transport for their commute in Tanami, a figure far above the national average. This is a sparsely populated area where traditional home working is non-existent, meaning almost everyone must travel to their job.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
About 19.4% of workers use a bus to get to work, which is far higher than the 3.1% national figure. In contrast, no one works from home here, which is far below the Australian average of 21%.
19.4% ▼ -48.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 37.9%
- 2016: 28.8%
- 2021: 19.4%
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 to services is far below the Northern Territory figure, 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 Tanami [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70248/tanami/topic/transport