7.4% ▼ -3.7%
Higher than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 7.7%
- 2016: 8.8%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kempsey · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Kempsey
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars for daily travel is very high in Kempsey, where few people have options like public transport or working from home. This is a place where most households need their own transport to get around, as only 0.4% of workers use public transport to commute.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.4% of homes in Kempsey have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. Most households have one or two cars, with 37.6% owning one and 33.9% owning two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Kempsey splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (38%) and 2 vehicles (34%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work, with 69.1% of people as the driver. Very few people work from home at 5.8%, which is far below the national figure of 21.0%.
5.8% ▲ +209.6%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 3.3%
- 2021: 5.8%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -32.0%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Kempsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1017/kempsey/topic/transport