5.9% ▼ -21.3%
Lower than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.5%
- 2016: 5.9%
- 2021: 5.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Darwin · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Darwin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Cars are essential for daily life in Darwin, where only 5.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on driving is clear in the morning rush, with nearly 68% of workers driving themselves to their jobs.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Darwin have at least one car, with 39.7% owning two vehicles. Far fewer households are without a car compared to the Northern Territory average, and this figure has fallen by 1.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Darwin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across Australia, with only 4.1% of the workforce doing so. While public transport use is about the same as the national figure at 2.5%, this has fallen by 1.1 percentage points since 2011.
4.1% ▲ +77.5%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 4.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▼ -30.5%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
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.
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 Darwin [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/7002/darwin/topic/transport