24.3% ▲ +28.6%
Higher than 90% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 18.9%
- 2016: 20.6%
- 2021: 24.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Tennant Creek · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Tennant Creek
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly one quarter of homes in Tennant Creek have no motor vehicle, a rate far above the national figure. This puts the area among the highest for vehicle-less households, reflecting a strong reliance on other ways of getting around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 24.3% of households have no car, which is far above the 7.4% seen across Australia. This figure has risen by 5.4 percentage points since 2011, while 43.9% of homes now have just one vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Tennant Creek, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by No vehicle (24%) and 2 vehicles (23%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is not used for commuting here, falling to 0.0% in 2021. Most people drive, but 13.1% walk to work, and the 2.8% who work from home is far below the national figure.
2.8% ▲ +47.7%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 2.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.9%
- 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.
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 Tennant Creek [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715007/tennant-creek/topic/transport