6.8% ▼ -29.5%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 7.5%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Central Coast · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Central Coast
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A surge in remote work defines Central Coast, where the number of people working from home jumped 21 percentage points since 2011. This shift is a key part of the local transport story, as a quarter of the workforce now avoids a daily commute entirely.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes here have one or two cars, though 6.8% of households have no motor vehicle. This is much higher than most similar areas, despite the figure falling 2.8 percentage points since 2011.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Central Coast splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is common for 25.3% of the workforce, which is well above the national figure. In contrast, public transport use is much higher than in most similar areas, though it still fell 3.6 percentage points since 2011 to reach 1.4%.
25.3% ▲ +497.0%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 4.2%
- 2016: 4.8%
- 2021: 25.3%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
1.4% ▼ -72.0%
Higher than 82% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.0%
- 2016: 5.1%
- 2021: 1.4%
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 Central Coast [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102002/central-coast/topic/transport