6.8% ▼ -29.9%
Higher than 74% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.7%
- 2016: 7.8%
- 2021: 6.8%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Newcastle · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Newcastle
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Far more homes in Newcastle lack a motor vehicle than in most similar areas, though this trend is falling. While most residents rely on cars, a striking 22.1% of the workforce now works from home, a figure that has climbed sharply since 2011.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 6.8% of households have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most areas. Most homes have one or two cars, with 38.9% of households owning two vehicles.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Newcastle splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (36%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home has surged by 19 points since 2011 to reach 22.1%, which is a little above the national figure. However, public transport use for commuting is very low at 0.9%, a figure that is a little below both the state and national levels.
22.1% ▲ +646.8%
Higher than 91% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.0%
- 2016: 3.6%
- 2021: 22.1%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.9% ▼ -59.9%
Higher than 75% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 2.2%
- 2021: 0.9%
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 Newcastle [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL102004/newcastle/topic/transport