1.9% ▼ -91.2%
Lower than 98% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 21.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nelson · State Electorate
Transport & Vehicles in Nelson
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.9% of Nelson homes lack a motor vehicle, making it one of the areas with the highest car ownership rates in the region. This reliance on private cars is reflected in how people get to work and a very low use of public transport.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 38.2% of homes having two vehicles and 18.9% owning four or more. The share of homes without a car has fallen steeply since 2011, dropping 20 points to reach a level well below the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Nelson, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 38%, followed by 1 vehicle (21%) and 3 vehicles (20%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Most people drive to work, with 67.6% as the driver. Very few people use public transport, at just 0.8%, which is much lower than most areas and has fallen since 2011. Working from home is also rare at 4.9%, far below the Australian figure.
4.9% ▲ +236.8%
Lower than 92% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 1.4%
- 2016: 2.7%
- 2021: 4.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -90.9%
Lower than 82% of state electorate areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 5.4%
- 2021: 0.8%
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.
Public transport consists entirely of buses, but services are limited. Weekly departures per 1,000 people are well below the Northern Territory figure, and the total number of stops is smaller than in 91% of similar areas.
41
Lower than 93% of state electorate areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
4.11
Lower than 61% 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).
315.5
Lower than 78% 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).
19
Lower than 70% 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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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nelson [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sed/SED70020/nelson/topic/transport