4.4% ▼ -50.7%
Lower than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 8.8%
- 2016: 7.1%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nelson Bay · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Nelson Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer homes go without a car in Nelson Bay compared to the rest of the country. This is a car-dependent area where only 4.4% of households lack a motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 4.5 points since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households own one or two cars, while 10.5% have three and 5.6% have four or more. The proportion of homes without a vehicle is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Nelson Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (41%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has risen 16 points since 2011 to 19.5%, though this remains far below the state figure of 31%. With 52.1% of people driving to work, only 0.6% use public transport, which is a little below the national average.
19.5% ▲ +444.1%
Higher than 89% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 19.5%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -6.3%
Lower than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.6%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Nelson Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1024/nelson-bay/topic/transport