8.9% ▼ -37.8%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 14.3%
- 2016: 9.9%
- 2021: 8.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Katherine · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Katherine
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer people work from home in Katherine compared to the rest of the country, with the 3.2% figure sitting far below the Australian average. Most residents rely heavily on their own cars to get around, although the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.9% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas, though this is a little below the Northern Territory figure. Most households own one or two cars, while 5.2% have four or more.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Katherine splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 70.1% of people as the driver. Very few people use public transport (0.6%) or work from home (3.2%), and the same is true for those who cycle (2.3%) or walk (5.6%).
3.2% ▲ +42.1%
Lower than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.2%
- 2016: 3.0%
- 2021: 3.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -38.6%
Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.9%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Katherine [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL714001/katherine/topic/transport