Lockhart River · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Lockhart River

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

Daily travel in Lockhart River is often a challenge, as 37.9% of homes have no motor vehicle. This is a sharp increase from 2011, when only 3.6% of households lacked a car. Most residents rely on their own cars or simply walk to get where they need to go.

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📍 Lockhart River, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Around 38% of homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national rate of 7.4%. While 41.4% of households own one car, the number of homes without any vehicle has risen by 34 percentage points since 2011.

37.9% ▲ +966.3%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.6%
  • 2016: 6.4%
  • 2021: 37.9%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Lockhart River splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and No vehicle (38%), with 2 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Walking is a common way to get to work here, used by 30.6% of residents. No one uses public transport or works from home, which is far below the national figure of 21% for those working from home.

0.0% ▼ -100.0%

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.7%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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

0.0% → —

Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 1.2%
  • 2021: 0.0%

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 Lockhart River, the largest group is Car (driver) at 49%, followed by Walked (34%) and Car (passenger) (17%).

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 Lockhart River [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL321067/lockhart-river/topic/transport