8.4% ▼ -27.8%
Higher than 83% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 11.7%
- 2016: 8.3%
- 2021: 8.4%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Grafton · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Grafton
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Almost 68% of workers in Grafton rely on driving a car to get to their jobs. While most homes own at least one vehicle, there is a notable gap in car ownership compared to similar areas. Public transport use remains very low and has stayed that way for a decade.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Around 8.4% of homes in Grafton have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has fallen 3.3 percentage points since 2011, with 44.3% of households now owning a single car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Grafton, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 44%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Working from home is far less common here than across New South Wales, at just 6.7%. Public transport use is also very low at 0.4%, which is a little below the national figure and has barely changed since 2011.
6.7% ▲ +195.9%
Lower than 59% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 2.3%
- 2016: 4.3%
- 2021: 6.7%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.4% ▼ -31.8%
Higher than 63% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.5%
- 2016: 0.6%
- 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 Grafton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113005/grafton/topic/transport