14.8% ▼ -42.6%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 25.7%
- 2016: 22.9%
- 2021: 14.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Mataranka · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Mataranka
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 15% of homes in Mataranka have no motor vehicle, a figure well above the national average. While many people here rely on cars, a significant number of residents walk to work. The area has seen a shift in how people get around since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 14.8% of households lack a motor vehicle, which is among the highest rates for similar areas and well above the Northern Territory figure. However, this is an improvement from 2011, when 25.7% of homes had no vehicle.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Mataranka, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (29%) and No vehicle (15%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
No one here uses public transport to get to work, and 27.5% of workers walk. While 9.4% of people now work from home — a rise from zero in 2011 — this is still far below the Australian figure.
9.4% ▲ —
Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 9.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.5%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
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 Mataranka [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722020/mataranka/topic/transport