8.4% ▲ +31.9%
Higher than 88% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 6.4%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Taree · Urban Area
Transport & Vehicles in Taree
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far fewer people work from home in Taree than in other parts of the country, with only 5.7% doing so. This makes the town heavily reliant on physical travel for work. Most residents depend on their own cars to get around, though a growing number of homes now have no vehicle at all.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 8.4% of Taree homes have no motor vehicle, a figure that has risen since 2011 and is now much higher than in most similar areas. For those who do own cars, 41.7% of households have one vehicle and 32.8% have two.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Taree, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 42%, followed by 2 vehicles (33%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
The vast majority of workers here travel by car, with 70.5% driving themselves. Public transport is rarely used, as only 0.4% of people commute by bus or train, which is a little below the national figure.
5.7% ▼ -3.9%
Lower than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 6.5%
- 2021: 5.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -20.3%
Lower than 67% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Taree [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/1033/taree/topic/transport