7.0% ▲ +118.6%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
- 2011: 3.2%
- 2016: 8.2%
- 2021: 7.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sale · Urban Area
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More people in Sale have gone without a car since 2011, though the town remains heavily reliant on driving. Only 0.3% of workers now use public transport to get to their jobs, a figure that has fallen since the last census.
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7% of homes in Sale have no motor vehicle, which is a rise from 3.2% in 2011. Most households own one or two cars, with 39.9% having one and 37.6% having two.
7.0% ▲ +118.6%
Higher than 70% of urban area areas.
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Sale splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (40%) and 2 vehicles (38%), with 3 vehicles at 10%.
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get around, with 65.7% of workers being the driver. Those working from home rose to 9.4% by 2021, but this is still far below the national figure of 21%.
9.4% ▲ +50.6%
Higher than 57% of urban area areas.
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.3% ▼ -79.5%
Lower than 77% 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 Sale [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sua/2015/sale/topic/transport