2.5% —
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Remainder of State/Territory · Urban Centre
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Car ownership has remained steady in Remainder of State/Territory (OT), with very few households lacking a vehicle. Most residents rely on their own transport to get around, though a small number use public transit.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Only 2.5% of homes lack a motor vehicle, which is well below the national figure of 7.4%. Most households have two cars, accounting for 40.4% of homes.
2.5% —
Lower than 65% of urban centre areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
In Remainder of State/Territory, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (34%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 65.3% of people. While 7.6% work from home—far below the Australian average of 21%—about 4% of the workforce uses public transport.
7.6% —
Lower than 52% of urban centre areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.0% —
Higher than 92% 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 Remainder of State/Territory [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL931001/remainder-of-state-territory/topic/transport