1.9% ▼ -68.6%
Lower than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.1%
- 2016: 6.9%
- 2021: 1.9%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Medowie · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Medowie
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Only 1.9% of homes in Medowie lack a motor vehicle, making it one of the areas with the highest rates of car ownership in the region. Most residents rely heavily on private cars to get around, while public transport use is almost non-existent. This reliance on vehicles is matched by a growing trend of people working from home.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Car ownership is very high here, with 40.8% of homes owning two vehicles and another 13% having four or more. The proportion of homes without a car is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2% and has fallen 4.2 points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Medowie, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 41%, followed by 1 vehicle (26%) and 3 vehicles (18%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the main way to get to work for 55.7% of residents, while public transport use is much lower than most areas at just 0.2%. Meanwhile, 19.7% of people now work from home, a figure that rose 14 points since 2011.
19.7% ▲ +254.1%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.6%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 19.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -90.7%
Lower than 87% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.7%
- 2016: 0.1%
- 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 Medowie [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1020/medowie/topic/transport