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Bowral - Mittagong · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Bowral - Mittagong

How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.

Working from home has surged by 22 percentage points since 2011 in Bowral - Mittagong. This shift toward remote work is part of a broader trend toward car reliance, with far fewer homes without a vehicle than the national average. Today, more than a quarter of the local workforce avoids a daily commute entirely.

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📍 Bowral - Mittagong, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Only 4% of homes lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below the Australian average of 7.4%. Most households are well-equipped for travel, with 38.8% owning two vehicles and another 38.4% having one.

Homes with no motor vehicle

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4.0% ▼ -61.2%

Higher than 50% of urban centre areas.

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Bowral - Mittagong splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (39%) and 1 vehicle (38%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.

2 vehicles 38.8% 1 vehicle 38.4% 3 vehicles 12.0% 4 or more 6.8% No vehicle 4.0%

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Remote work is common here, with 26.1% of people working from home, which is well above the national figure of 21%. Public transport use remains very low and stable, with only 0.8% of workers using it to get to their jobs.

People working from home

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26.1% ▲ +485.2%

Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.

Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.

Commuting by public transport

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0.8% ▲ +12.3%

Higher than 73% of urban centre 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.

How people get to work

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In Bowral - Mittagong, Car (driver) is the majority at 60%; Worked at home is next at 30%.

Car (driver) 51.4% Worked at home 26.1% Car (passenger) 4.4% Walked 3.1% Train 0.4% Bus 0.3% Bicycle 0.2%

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 Bowral - Mittagong [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112004/bowral-mittagong/topic/transport