8.3% ▼ -25.7%
Higher than 76% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 11.2%
- 2016: 31.1%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katherine · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Katherine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero public transport stops are available in Katherine, making the town almost entirely dependent on private cars. This lack of infrastructure means very few people use transit to get around, with 70.5% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, and 8.3% have none. This share of car-less households is much higher than in most similar areas, although it has fallen by 2.9 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is rare here at 4.4%, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Only 0.4% of people use public transport to get to work, a figure that has barely changed over the last decade.
4.4% ▲ +44.4%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -50.6%
Lower than 94% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 1.7%
- 2021: 0.4%
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.
There are no public transport routes or stops in the area. Consequently, the number of weekly departures per 1,000 people is 0.0, which is far below the Northern Territory figure of 505.8.
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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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70017/katherine/topic/transport