Spillett · State Electorate

Transport & Vehicles in Spillett

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

Just 1.5% of homes in Spillett have no motor vehicle, making it one of the areas most likely to own a car. This high level of vehicle ownership is reflected in how people get around and the limited use of working from home.

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📍 Spillett, State Electorate

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 50.2% owning two vehicles and 15% owning three. The share of homes without a car has fallen sharply by 39 percentage points since 2011, leaving this area well below the Northern Territory and national figures.

1.5% ▼ -96.2%

Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 40.9%
  • 2016: 44.9%
  • 2021: 1.5%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Spillett, 2 vehicles is the majority at 50%; 1 vehicle is next at 27%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Driving is the primary way to get to work, with 74% of people being the driver. Very few people work from home at 3.9%, which is far below the Australian figure of 21%, while only 1.5% use public transport.

3.9% ▼ -40.9%

Lower than 96% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 6.6%
  • 2016: 2.6%
  • 2021: 3.9%

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

1.5% ▼ -76.1%

Lower than 65% of state electorate areas.

  • 2011: 6.4%
  • 2016: 2.3%
  • 2021: 1.5%

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 Spillett, Car (driver) is the majority at 85%; Car (passenger) is next at 6%.

Public transport access

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

Public transport in Spillett relies entirely on buses. While there are 44 stops and 28 routes, the number of stops per 1,000 people is lower than most areas, though weekly departures are well above the Northern Territory figure.

3.85

Lower than 66% 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).

673.0

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).

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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Spillett [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70024/spillett/topic/transport