4.6% ▼ -17.1%
Lower than 79% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.5%
- 2016: 4.1%
- 2021: 4.6%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Singleton · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Singleton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Driving is the dominant way to get around Singleton, with 61.6% of workers commuting by car. The area is heavily reliant on private transport, with very few people using public options. This makes the town's transport landscape stand out compared to the rest of the state.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Private cars are common here, as only 4.6% of homes have no motor vehicle, which is well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%. Most households have at least two vehicles, with 40.4% of homes owning exactly two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Singleton, the largest group is 2 vehicles at 40%, followed by 1 vehicle (31%) and 3 vehicles (16%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Public transport is rarely used, with only 0.3% of people using it to get to work, a figure much lower than most areas. While the number of people working from home rose to 10.2% since 2011, this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
10.2% ▲ +181.0%
Higher than 64% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.6%
- 2016: 4.7%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -41.0%
Lower than 82% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.3%
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 Singleton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1029/singleton/topic/transport