32.2% ▼ -25.4%
Higher than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 43.2%
- 2016: 56.6%
- 2021: 32.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yuendumu · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Yuendumu
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A lack of private cars and public services shapes daily movement in Yuendumu, where 32.2% of homes have no motor vehicle. This figure is far above the national rate, meaning many residents rely on other ways to get around their community.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About one in three homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. For those who do own cars, the most common arrangement is a single vehicle, found in 46.1% of households.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yuendumu, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 48%, followed by No vehicle (34%) and 2 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 43.2% of people. Very few work from home at 2.2%, a figure far below the Australian average of 21.0%.
2.2% ▼ -36.1%
Lower than 95% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 2.2%
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: 2.6%
- 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 routes or stops in the area. This puts Yuendumu far below the Northern Territory average for both the number of stops and 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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Yuendumu [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL70301/yuendumu/topic/transport