5.3% ▼ -44.1%
Lower than 54% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 9.5%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Fong Lim · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Fong Lim
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes in Fong Lim are without a car than in 2011, making vehicle ownership more common. Most residents rely on private cars for their daily travel, while very few work from home. This reliance on cars happens despite the area having a high number of public transport options compared to the rest of the Territory.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 5.3% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. This is a drop of 4.2 percentage points since 2011, with 41.2% of households now owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Fong Lim, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (36%) and 3 vehicles (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far below the national figure, with only 4.5% of people doing so. Most workers commute by car, as only 2.4% use public transport, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
4.5% ▲ +90.6%
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.0%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.4% ▼ -17.8%
Higher than 50% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.4%
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 access is far above the Northern Territory average, with 7.81 stops per 1,000 people. Weekly departures are also far above the Territory figure, with 1,345.6 per 1,000 people, all served by buses.
63
Lower than 90% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
7.81
Higher than 95% 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).
1,345.6
Higher than 64% 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).
27
Higher than 51% 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 Fong Lim [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70012/fong-lim/topic/transport