5.6% ▼ -11.7%
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Australian Capital Territory · State / Territory
Transport & Vehicles in Australian Capital Territory
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
About 59% of people in the Australian Capital Territory drive themselves to work. This is the most common way to get around, though the region sees much higher rates of public transport use than most other areas. Only 5.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has barely changed since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have one or two cars, with 39.2% owning one and 38.7% owning two. Only 5.6% of households get by without a vehicle, which is a little below the national figure of 7.4%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Australian Capital Territory splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport use for work is much higher here than in most other areas, though it fell to 4.6% since 2011. Working from home rose to 10.9% over the last decade, but this remains far below the national figure of 21.0%.
10.9% ▲ +302.7%
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 3.1%
- 2021: 10.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.6% ▼ -19.5%
- 2011: 5.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
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 territory has much better access to transit than most areas, with 5.72 stops and 1,464.3 weekly departures per 1,000 people. While there are fewer total stops and routes than in some other regions, the network is almost entirely buses, making up 96.4% of the service.
2,602
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.72
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
1,464.3
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).
100
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 Australian Capital Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ste/8/australian-capital-territory/topic/transport