9.5% ▲ +60.3%
Higher than 86% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 5.9%
- 2016: 10.2%
- 2021: 9.5%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Kempsey · Urban Centre
Transport & Vehicles in Kempsey
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Reliance on cars is the defining feature of daily travel in Kempsey, where very few people work from home. While most households own at least one vehicle, the number of homes without any motor vehicle has risen to 9.5%.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
About 9.5% of homes in Kempsey have no motor vehicle, which is much higher than most similar areas. This figure has risen by 3.6 percentage points since 2011, though it remains about the same as the New South Wales average.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →In Kempsey, the largest group is 1 vehicle at 43%, followed by 2 vehicles (32%) and 3 vehicles (10%).
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Only 4.4% of people work from home, which is far below the national figure of 21%. This lack of remote work is mirrored by low public transport use, with just 0.6% of workers commuting by bus or train.
4.4% ▲ +13.6%
Lower than 77% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 3.9%
- 2016: 3.2%
- 2021: 4.4%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.6% ▼ -30.0%
Higher than 69% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 0.8%
- 2016: 0.4%
- 2021: 0.6%
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 Kempsey [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL113006/kempsey/topic/transport