7.2% ▼ -31.1%
Higher than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 10.5%
- 2016: 7.3%
- 2021: 7.2%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Araluen · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Araluen
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for daily life in Araluen, where very few people use other ways to get around. This is seen in the high reliance on driving, with 66% of workers commuting as the sole driver of a car.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes keep at least one car, and 37.1% have two. Only 7.2% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that is about the same as the national average and has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Araluen splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (37%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here, at just 2.5%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use for work is also low at 1.4% and has fallen over the last decade.
2.5% ▼ -1.5%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 1.9%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -53.0%
Lower than 68% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 1.4%
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.
Public transport options are limited, with only 5 routes and 34 stops serving the area. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the Northern Territory figure.
34
Lower than 95% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.41
Lower than 75% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
167.1
Lower than 86% of state electorate 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).
5
Lower than 93% of state electorate 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 Araluen [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70002/araluen/topic/transport