Alyangula · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Alyangula

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.

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📍 Alyangula, Urban Centre

Vehicles

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.

  • 2011: 61.9%
  • 2016: 7.6%
  • 2021: 5.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Alyangula splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (39%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.

Getting to work

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.

  • 2011: 3.1%
  • 2016: 1.8%
  • 2021: 2.9%

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

6.0% ▲ —

Higher than 98% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 0.0%
  • 2016: 6.5%
  • 2021: 6.0%

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.

How people get to work

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In Alyangula, Car (driver) is the majority at 64%; Walked is next at 11%.

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 Alyangula [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721001/alyangula/topic/transport