6.1% ▼ -20.3%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 6.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Darwin · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Darwin
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Darwin than in the rest of Australia, with only 4.0% doing so. While most residents rely on cars, a small number of households live without a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen slightly since 2011.
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. Only 6.1% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Darwin splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (40%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 67.4% of people as the driver. Public transport use is much higher than in most similar areas, though only 4.0% of workers stay at home, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
4.0% ▲ +79.0%
Lower than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 4.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
2.5% ▼ -30.2%
Higher than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 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/ucl/UCL703001/darwin/topic/transport