5.3% ▼ -21.5%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.7%
- 2016: 5.0%
- 2021: 5.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Byron Bay · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Byron Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A huge 25.8% of the workforce now work from home in Byron Bay, a figure that has jumped by 19 points since 2011. This shift towards remote work is part of a transport landscape where cars are essential and public transport is rarely used.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Byron Bay have at least one car, with 38.5% owning one and 36.7% owning two. Only 5.3% 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 →Byron Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the most common way to get to work for 44.2% of residents. Public transport use is among the lowest for areas of this size, with only 0.2% of people using it to commute.
25.8% ▲ +308.8%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.3%
- 2016: 5.7%
- 2021: 25.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -71.2%
Lower than 93% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.2%
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 Byron Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1008/byron-bay/topic/transport