3.8% ▼ -53.1%
Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.2%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 3.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nhulunbuy · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Nhulunbuy
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Private cars are essential for almost everyone in Nhulunbuy, where only 3.8% of homes have no motor vehicle. This reliance on personal transport is much stronger than in the rest of the Northern Territory and across Australia. Most households now own at least one car, with a trend toward more vehicle ownership over the last decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 43.5% actually own two. Far fewer people live without a vehicle compared to the national figure, and this number has fallen from 8.2% in 2011 to 3.8% in 2021.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nhulunbuy, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 43%, followed by 1 vehicle (37%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work for 64.1% of residents, while working from home is very rare at just 2.3%. This is far below the national figure, and public transport use has plummeted from 11.9% in 2011 to just 1.5% today.
2.3% ▲ +72.5%
Lower than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.3%
- 2016: 1.4%
- 2021: 2.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.5% ▼ -87.1%
Higher than 84% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.9%
- 2016: 3.9%
- 2021: 1.5%
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 Nhulunbuy [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715006/nhulunbuy/topic/transport