5.5% ▼ -22.9%
Lower than 63% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.1%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Batemans Bay · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Batemans Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 0.7% of people in Batemans Bay use public transport to get to work, highlighting a heavy reliance on cars. Most homes here own at least one vehicle, and the number of people without a car has fallen since 2011. While more people are now working from home, the vast majority still commute by vehicle.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Cars are very common in Batemans Bay, with 78.6% of homes owning either one or two vehicles. Only 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Batemans Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 11%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 66% of residents being the driver of a car. About 9.8% of people work from home, a figure that has risen since 2011 but remains far below the national figure of 21%.
9.8% ▲ +82.0%
Higher than 61% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.7% ▼ -1.7%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.7%
- 2016: 0.7%
- 2021: 0.7%
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 Batemans Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1004/batemans-bay/topic/transport