6.4% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 10.0%
- 2016: 8.4%
- 2021: 6.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nowra - Bomaderry · Urban Area
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A tiny 0.3% of workers use public transport in Nowra - Bomaderry, a figure much lower than most other areas. This reliance on private travel is reflected in the high number of cars per household. While working from home has grown recently, it remains far less common here than in the rest of the state.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have at least one car, with 37.4% owning one and 36.9% owning two. Only 6.4% of households have no motor vehicle, a figure that has fallen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011.
6.4% ▼ -36.2%
Higher than 54% of urban area areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Nowra - Bomaderry splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (37%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
How people travel to work.
Cars are the primary way to get to work, with 66.9% of people driving themselves. Those working from home rose to 8.6% by 2021, though this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
8.6% ▲ +150.9%
Higher than 51% of urban area areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -73.6%
Lower than 86% of urban area areas.
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.
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Nowra - Bomaderry [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1026/nowra-bomaderry/topic/transport