9.8% ▼ -15.6%
Higher than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 11.6%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 9.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Broken Hill · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Broken Hill
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Over 70% of people in Broken Hill drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. Most households have at least one vehicle, although about 10% of homes have none. This reliance on private cars is mirrored by a very low use of public transport and working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 43% of homes have one car and 33% have two. While 9.8% of households have no motor vehicle, this is a little above the national figure and has fallen slightly since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Broken Hill, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very rare here at 4.2%, which is far below the national figure. Public transport use is among the lowest in the country at just 0.1%, with almost everyone relying on cars to commute.
4.2% ▲ +79.7%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.4%
- 2021: 4.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.1% ▼ -78.3%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.1%
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 Broken Hill [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1007/broken-hill/topic/transport