65.9% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 65.5%
- 2016: 58.6%
- 2021: 65.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wadeye · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Wadeye
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 66% of homes in Wadeye have no motor vehicle, making it an area where car ownership is very low. This lack of private transport is reflected in how people get around, with 43.1% of workers walking to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 65.9% of households have no car, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1% and the national rate of 7.4%. Only 10% of homes have two vehicles, and just 0.9% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wadeye, No vehicle is the majority at 64%; 1 vehicle is next at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 43.1% of people, while 5.1% use public transport, which is a little above the national figure. Very few people work from home at 1.3%, far below the 21% average for Australia.
1.3% ▲ —
Lower than 97% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.1% ▲ +99.4%
Higher than 91% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
There are no public transport stops or routes in Wadeye. This means weekly departures per 1,000 people are at 0.0, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 505.8.
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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70275/wadeye/topic/transport