9.0% ▼ -2.6%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 9.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alice Springs · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Alice Springs
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Alice Springs than in other parts of the country. While most residents rely on cars, 9% of homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that is much higher than in most similar areas.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households have one or two cars, with 37.5% owning one and 34.8% owning two. The 9% of homes without a vehicle is a little above the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
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.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 65.7% of people as the driver. Working from home is very rare here at 3%, which is far below the 21% national figure.
3.0% ▲ +31.1%
Lower than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.1%
- 2021: 3.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.6% ▼ -46.3%
Higher than 85% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 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/ucl/UCL712001/alice-springs/topic/transport