5.5% ▼ -8.9%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 6.0%
- 2016: 4.4%
- 2021: 5.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Byron Bay · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Byron Bay
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
A quarter of people in Byron Bay now work from home, a figure that has surged since 2011. This shift highlights a community where remote work is common, though most residents still rely on private cars to get around.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most homes in Byron Bay have one or two cars, while 5.5% of households have no motor vehicle. This is higher than in most similar areas, but well below the New South Wales figure of 9.2%.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Byron Bay splits fairly evenly between 1 vehicle (39%) and 2 vehicles (37%), with 3 vehicles at 12%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is very common here, with 25.6% of the workforce doing so, which is well above the national figure. In contrast, very few people use public transport to get to work, at just 0.2%.
25.6% ▲ +209.6%
Higher than 94% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 8.3%
- 2016: 4.2%
- 2021: 25.6%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.2% ▼ -90.1%
Higher than 58% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 1.9%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 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.
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 Byron Bay [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113004/byron-bay/topic/transport