8.7% ▼ -2.8%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.0%
- 2016: 8.0%
- 2021: 8.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alice Springs · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Alice Springs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car travel is the dominant way people move around Alice Springs, with 66% of workers driving themselves to work. While most homes rely on vehicles, a small number of residents use public transport or walk to reach their jobs. The area's transport patterns have remained relatively stable over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.7% of homes in Alice Springs have no motor vehicle, a figure that is a little above the national average and has barely changed since 2011. Most households own one or two cars, while 6.7% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Alice Springs splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very uncommon here, with only 3.2% of people doing so, which is far below the 21% national figure. Public transport use for commuting is much higher than in most similar areas, though it fell to 1.6% in 2021.
3.2% ▲ +27.9%
Lower than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.5%
- 2016: 2.3%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -46.1%
Higher than 81% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.9%
- 2016: 2.5%
- 2021: 1.6%
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.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alice Springs [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7001/alice-springs/topic/transport