5.6% ▼ -90.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 61.9%
- 2016: 7.6%
- 2021: 5.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alyangula · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge drop in the number of carless homes is the main story for Alyangula, where only 5.6% of households now lack a motor vehicle. Most people here rely on cars to get around, though a small number use public transport more often than in other parts of the Territory.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Almost every home in Alyangula now has a car, with 41.8% owning one and 39.9% owning two. This is a massive change from 2011, when 61.9% of households had no vehicle.
5.6% ▼ -90.9%
Higher than 65% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Alyangula splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
How people travel to work.
Over half of workers drive themselves to work, while 6% use public transport, which is well above the Northern Territory figure of 2.2%. Very few people work from home at 2.9%, a figure far below the 21% national average.
2.9% ▼ -6.9%
Lower than 88% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
6.0% ▲ —
Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Alyangula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721001/alyangula/topic/transport