Griffith · Urban Centre

Transport & Vehicles in Griffith

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

Only 3.7% of workers in Griffith work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. This makes it a place where the vast majority of people still travel to a physical workplace. Reliance on cars is high, though the number of homes without a vehicle has fallen since 2011.

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📍 Griffith, Urban Centre

Vehicles

Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.

Most homes in Griffith have at least one car, with 37.9% owning two. While 6% of households have no motor vehicle—a figure higher than in most similar areas—this is still well below the New South Wales average of 9.2%.

6.0% ▼ -37.4%

Higher than 68% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 9.5%
  • 2016: 4.0%
  • 2021: 6.0%

Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.

Motor vehicles per home

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Griffith splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (38%) and 1 vehicle (34%), with 3 vehicles at 14%.

Getting to work

How people travel to work.

Cars are the dominant way to get around, with 73.4% of people driving to work and another 10.3% travelling as passengers. Very few people use public transport, and at 0.2%, this is a little below the national figure of 3.1%.

3.7% ▲ +44.4%

Lower than 82% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 2.6%
  • 2016: 4.1%
  • 2021: 3.7%

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

0.2% ▼ -81.5%

Higher than 59% of urban centre areas.

  • 2011: 1.1%
  • 2016: 0.3%
  • 2021: 0.2%

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 Griffith, Car (driver) is the majority at 81%; Car (passenger) is next at 11%.

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 Griffith [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112010/griffith/topic/transport