Humpty Doo · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Humpty Doo

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Nearly 75% of working residents in Humpty Doo drive themselves to work, highlighting a strong reliance on cars. Almost every household here owns a motor vehicle, with a very small number of homes lacking one compared to the rest of the country.

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📍 Humpty Doo, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 1.6% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. Car ownership is high, with 35.1% of households owning two vehicles and 20.5% owning four or more.

1.6% ▼ -56.2%

Lower than 73% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 3.7%
  • 2016: 4.5%
  • 2021: 1.6%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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In Humpty Doo, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 35%, followed by 1 vehicle (24%) and 4 or more (21%).

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Working from home rose to 7.8% since 2011, which is well above the Northern Territory average of 4.2%. Public transport use is very low at 1.3%, sitting a little below the national figure of 3.1%.

7.8% ▲ +354.4%

Lower than 51% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 3.7%
  • 2021: 7.8%

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

1.3% ▼ -24.3%

Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.7%
  • 2016: 3.4%
  • 2021: 1.3%

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 Humpty Doo, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Worked at home is next at 8%.

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 Humpty Doo [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721008/humpty-doo/topic/transport