7.4% ▼ -23.0%
Higher than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 9.6%
- 2016: 7.7%
- 2021: 7.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Lismore · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Lismore
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
More than 63% of working residents in Lismore drive themselves to work, making the car the dominant way to get around. While most homes own at least one vehicle, the area has seen a rise in people working from home. This shift is evident as 10.7% of the workforce now avoids a daily commute entirely.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 7.4% of Lismore homes have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. This is down from 9.6% in 2011, and currently sits about the same as the national figure.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Lismore, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (35%) and 3 vehicles (11%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home rose to 10.7% since 2011, though this remains far below the New South Wales figure of 31%. Public transport use is very low at 0.4%, which is a little below both state and national levels.
10.7% ▲ +247.4%
Higher than 66% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.1%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 10.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -18.5%
Higher than 64% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.5%
- 2021: 0.4%
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 Lismore [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL112012/lismore/topic/transport