65.9% ▲ +0.7%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 65.5%
- 2016: 58.6%
- 2021: 65.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Wadeye · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Wadeye
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes lack a car in Wadeye than in the rest of Australia. Roughly 66% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a huge gap compared to the national figure of 7.4%. This lack of private transport means a large number of people rely on walking to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 66% of homes here have no motor vehicle, a figure that is far above the Northern Territory's 11.1% and has barely changed since 2011. Only 23.4% of households own a single vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Wadeye, No vehicle is the majority at 64%; 1 vehicle is next at 23%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work for 43.1% of residents. Use of public transport for commuting rose to 5.1% since 2011, while the 1.3% of people working from home is far below the national figure of 21%.
1.3% ▲ —
Lower than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 1.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.1% ▲ +98.3%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.6%
- 2016: 9.3%
- 2021: 5.1%
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 Wadeye [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL715008/wadeye/topic/transport