6.3% ▼ -31.7%
Higher than 52% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.2%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.3%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Newcastle - Maitland · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Newcastle - Maitland
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people work from home in Newcastle - Maitland than in most similar areas, with 20% of the workforce doing so. The region relies heavily on private cars, though a small number of households have no motor vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes have at least one car, and 39% actually own two. Only 6.3% of households have no motor vehicle, which is a little below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Newcastle - Maitland splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (35%), with 3 vehicles at 13%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged 17 percentage points since 2011 to reach 20%, while only 0.8% of the workforce uses public transport. This is a little below the national figure of 3.1%.
20.0% ▲ +626.8%
Higher than 90% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 2.8%
- 2016: 3.5%
- 2021: 20.0%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.8% ▼ -21.7%
Higher than 59% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 1.1%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 2021: 0.8%
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 Newcastle - Maitland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1025/newcastle-maitland/topic/transport