11.1% ▼ -10.1%
- 2011: 12.3%
- 2016: 11.3%
- 2021: 11.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Northern Territory · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in Northern Territory
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A high reliance on private cars defines daily travel across the Northern Territory, where most people drive themselves to work. While 11.1% of homes have no motor vehicle—a figure well above the national average—the vast majority of the population depends on road travel to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More people live without a car here than in most other states, with 11.1% of homes having no motor vehicle. However, for those who do own them, two vehicles per home are the most common arrangement at 35.3%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Northern Territory splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (35%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Few people work from home here, with only 4.2% doing so, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%. This is reflected in how people travel, as 63.4% drive themselves to work and only 2.2% use public transport.
4.2% ▲ +52.0%
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 2.6%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.2% ▼ -35.0%
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is limited across the region, with only 83 routes and 768 stops. This is much lower than most other areas, and all services are provided by bus.
768
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
3.30
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
505.8
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).
83
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 Northern Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/7/northern-territory/topic/transport