8.3% ▼ -17.7%
Higher than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 8.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Armidale · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Armidale
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 18 percentage point jump in working from home has transformed how people in Armidale get to work since 2011. While 22% of the workforce now works from home, the area remains heavily reliant on cars for daily travel.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, though 8.3% have none, which is much higher than in most similar areas. This figure has fallen slightly from 10.1% in 2011, with 34.1% of households now owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Armidale, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (34%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 0.3% of workers use public transport, a figure that is much lower than most areas and has barely changed since 2011. Instead, half of the workforce drives themselves to work, while 22% work from home, which is a little above the national figure.
22.0% ▲ +459.0%
Higher than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 4.5%
- 2021: 22.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -66.9%
Lower than 78% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.0%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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.
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 Armidale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1002/armidale/topic/transport