11.7% ▲ +28.9%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 9.1%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 11.7%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sydney · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Sydney
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Nearly 40% of workers in Sydney now work from home, a huge jump that has reshaped daily travel in the city. This shift towards remote work is far above the national figure, marking a major change in how people move around the region.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
More homes in Sydney have no motor vehicle than in most similar areas, with 11.7% of households owning none. This is well above the Australian figure and has risen by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Sydney, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 40%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and No vehicle (12%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Remote work is very common here, with 39.9% of people working from home, which is far above the 21% national figure. Around 4% of residents use public transport to get to work, a figure that has risen from just 0.5% in 2011.
39.9% ▲ +1077.1%
Higher than 99% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.4%
- 2016: 3.4%
- 2021: 39.9%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
4.0% ▲ +773.3%
Higher than 96% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 4.0%
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 Sydney [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1031/sydney/topic/transport