Fannie Bay · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Fannie Bay

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Daily travel in Fannie Bay relies heavily on private cars, though the area has a high density of transit stops. While most households own at least one vehicle, the suburb provides far more public transport options per person than the Northern Territory average.

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📍 Fannie Bay, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

About 7.6% of homes here have no motor vehicle, which is higher than most areas and slightly above the national figure. Most households keep one or two cars, with 40.4% owning one and 36.1% owning two.

7.6% ▼ -11.8%

Higher than 72% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 8.7%
  • 2016: 9.3%
  • 2021: 7.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Fannie Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the dominant way to get to work, with 67% of people acting as the driver. Only 5.4% of the workforce works from home, a figure that is far below the national average of 21%.

5.4% ▲ +76.3%

Lower than 89% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 2.9%
  • 2021: 5.4%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

2.2% ▼ -30.3%

Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 7.7%
  • 2021: 2.2%

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.

How people get to work

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In Fannie Bay, Car (driver) is the majority at 78%; Car (passenger) is next at 7%.

Public transport access

Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.

Public transport access is strong, with nearly 6 stops per 1,000 people—far above the Northern Territory figure of 3.3. This is supported by a high volume of weekly bus departures, which are far above the state average.

5.94

Higher than 77% 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).

1,051.4

Higher than 52% 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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Fannie Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70011/fannie-bay/topic/transport