18.5% ▼ -7.3%
Higher than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 20.0%
- 2016: 16.8%
- 2021: 18.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Daly · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Daly
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more households in Daly live without a car than in most similar areas, with 18.5% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1% and far above the national average. While car use remains common, the area lacks the basic infrastructure seen in other parts of the Territory.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 18.5% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Australian figure of 7.4%, though this has fallen slightly since 2011. For those who do own cars, 32.2% have one and 29.1% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Daly splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (29%), with No vehicle at 18%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work (46.7%) or walk (16.4%), while only 2.1% use public transport. Those working from home make up 8.1% of the workforce, which is well above the Territory figure but far below the national average.
8.1% ▲ +14.6%
Lower than 75% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 8.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.1% ▲ +5.6%
Lower than 55% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.0%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 2.1%
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 Daly, leaving the area with zero weekly departures per 1,000 people. This is far below the Northern Territory average of 505.8 departures.
0
Lower than 99% of state electorate 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 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).
0.0
Lower than 99% 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).
0
Lower than 99% 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 Daly [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70009/daly/topic/transport