73.1% ▲ +272.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 19.6%
- 2016: 43.4%
- 2021: 73.1%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa) · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Fewer homes have cars here than in almost any other similar area, with Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa) seeing a huge shift in how people get around. Nearly three quarters of households now live without a motor vehicle, a figure that has climbed steeply since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
A striking 73.1% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is far above the Northern Territory figure of 11.1%. This is a significant increase from 2011, when only 19.6% of households were without a car.
73.1% ▲ +272.0%
Higher than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa), No vehicle is the majority at 75%; 1 vehicle is next at 18%.
How people travel to work.
Walking is the primary way to get to work for 64.7% of residents. Public transport use is also far above the national figure at 13.2%, while no one in the area works from home.
0.0% ▼ -100.0%
Lower than 99% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
13.2% ▼ -20.6%
Higher than 99% 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 Nganmarriyanga (Palumpa) [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL722025/nganmarriyanga/topic/transport