5.0% ▼ -35.4%
Lower than 58% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 7.8%
- 2016: 6.3%
- 2021: 5.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Clarence · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Clarence
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Clarence compared to the rest of the state, with only 10.3% doing so. This region relies heavily on private cars to get around, as public transport use for commuting has dropped to almost nothing.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Clarence have at least one car, and only 5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%, and the number of carless homes has fallen since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Clarence splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Private cars are the main way to get to work, with 64.7% of people driving. Very few people use public transport for their commute, at just 0.3%, which is among the lowest for similar areas.
10.3% ▲ +228.1%
Lower than 63% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 10.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -85.9%
Lower than 99% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
While Clarence has more transport stops than most areas, with 447 stops across 70 routes, services are infrequent. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are far below the New South Wales figure, and almost all services are buses.
447
Higher than 86% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
5.75
Higher than 74% of state electorate areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
201.5
Lower than 84% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
70
Higher than 87% of state electorate areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Clarence [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED10019/clarence/topic/transport