4.5% ▲ +9.5%
Lower than 66% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 4.1%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 4.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sanderson · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Sanderson
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Few things have shifted in the way people move around Sanderson since 2011, but the area remains heavily reliant on cars. While working from home has risen slightly to 3.5%, the vast majority of residents still depend on private vehicles for their daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is high, with only 4.5% of homes having no motor vehicle. This is well below the Northern Territory figure of 11.1% and a little below the national average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sanderson, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (32%) and 3 vehicles (14%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 70% as the driver. Only 2% use public transport, which is about the same as the rest of the Territory, while the 3.5% who work from home is far below the national figure.
3.5% ▲ +89.4%
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.8%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.0% ▼ -23.5%
Lower than 56% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 4.6%
- 2021: 2.0%
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.
The area has 56 bus stops, providing 6.81 stops per 1,000 people, which is far above the Northern Territory average. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are also well above the Territory figure at 690.4.
56
Lower than 91% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
6.81
Higher than 88% 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).
690.4
Lower than 63% 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).
18
Lower than 72% 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 Sanderson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70023/sanderson/topic/transport