34.3% ▲ +51.0%
Higher than 93% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 22.7%
- 2016: 61.0%
- 2021: 34.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Yirrkala · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Yirrkala
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than a third of homes in Yirrkala have no motor vehicle, a figure far above the national average. This highlights a reliance on walking and other local travel options for daily life. Local transport patterns are quite different from the rest of the country.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 34.3% of households do not have a car, which is much higher than the 7.4% seen across Australia. This is a growing trend, with the number of carless homes rising 12 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Yirrkala, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 41%, followed by No vehicle (32%) and 2 vehicles (24%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Walking is the most common way to get to work at 35.4%, while only 5% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. Public transport use is also a little above the national and state averages.
5.0% ▲ +217.0%
Lower than 72% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.6%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
5.0% ▲ +40.9%
Higher than 95% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 5.0%
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 Yirrkala [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL721016/yirrkala/topic/transport